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WORLD WAR 2 1939-1945

Those who served, ships, Royal Navy, Dominion & Allied Navies, events, convoys, technical, maps, etc.
INTRODUCTIONS TO THE ROYAL & DOMINION NAVIES IN WORLD WAR 2
Campaigns, Battles and Major Ship Losses
Guide to the Organisation
Warship Histories
the Price Paid

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS, including London Gazette Despatches
Battle of the River Plate 1939

OTHER NEW ADDITIONS
United States Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps Casualties 1941-45 an ongoing project


THOSE WHO SERVED

Veteran 1940
ROYAL & DOMINION NAVY CASUALTIES 1939-45, by Name and Date/Ship, including Royal Marines, by Don Kindell, US Researcher, compiled from Admiralty Documents

also Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Indian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, South African Naval Force, and Royal Norwegian Navy

UNITED STATES NAVY, COAST GUARD and MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES, 1941-45, an ongoing project using online US sources

Some of those who served:

Horace Carswell DSM, MM, BEM, Chief Steward, and Russian Convoy PQ.17

Sidney Kerslake RNR, Leading Seaman, 1920-99, Norway and Russian Convoys

Edward Palmer BEM, Coxswain, attack on HMS Foyle Bank July 1940

Harold Siddall, Stoker, 1916-97, from Scapa Flow to Crete, and on to a German Stalag

George Smith (left), Ordnance Artificer, 1916-43, HMS Charybdis

Henry Sutton, Petty Officer, HMS Blackpool, and his Letter from Normandy, June 1944

Frank Taylor, Able Seaman, HMS Scarab, Mediterranean service 1943-44 (external site)

Roderick Timms, Lt Cdr, RD*, RNR and Coastal Forces, 1941-45 (external site)

Maurice Whiteing, Leading Air Mechanic, HMS Indomitable, Far East, 1944-1945

Basil Woolf, MID, Petty Officer, the Battle for Walcheren, 1st November 1944


MEDALS

Victoria Cross at Sea, 1940-45

George Cross & Albert Medal at Sea, 1939-45

Medal of Honor at Sea,1941-45

Imperial Japanese Navy and Order of the Golden Kite - A Note

SHIPS

Mike Pocock


SERVICE HISTORIES of 1,000 ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2, including Class Information, by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Mason, RN (Rtd)


Note: only a limited number of escorts are included in the above Service Histories. Much of their careers, including those of Dominion and Allied Navies operating with the Royal Navy, can be found in Convoy Escort Movement following:

CONVOY ESCORT MOVEMENTS of ROYAL and DOMINION NAVY VESSELS, including Allied Naval Vessels under RN Command, by Don Kindell based on the researches of the late Lt-Cdr Arnold Hague RNR


Indomitable Whiteing

Major BRITISH WARSHIP LOSSES with commanding officers, loss locations and casualties - Capital ships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers & escort destroyers, submarines, including X-craft

British Naval Losses by Name, Date, Theatre, Type of ship, from "British Vessels Lost at Sea, 1939-45", HMSO

H.M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action, 1939-1945, Official Admiralty Report, 1952 (external site, PDF download)


HMS Charybdis:

All in a Day's Work - Her Career by 'Rocky' Royle

Her Loss and Commemoration, by the Charybdis Association

Account of Her Loss, from Captured German Archives


British Yard Minesweeper BYMS-72, captured in 1943 Aegean Campaign, by Cdr Bruhn USN

HM Harbour Defence Motor Launch No.1001, RN and later career

HMS Indomitable in the Far East 1944-45, a photographic record

Thames Lighters at War, off the British & US Normandy beaches

ROYAL NAVY

Rank Badges


WORLD WAR 2 - GUIDE TO THE ROYAL NAVY'S ORGANISATION 1939-1945, by Dr Graham Watson


NAVY LISTS - 1939-40 Monthly, 1940-44 Bimonthly, 1944-45 Quarterly (external site, PDF downloads)


Royal Navy at Beginning and End of World War 2

Royal Navy, Royal Marine, Single-Ship Battle Honours 1939-45, with links to Campaigns

Naval Life and Customs by Lt-Cdr John Irving RN, a gem of a book

Ranks, Trades, Pay & Allowances, Badges of Rank 1942

Naval Parties of the Royal Navy, World War 2 by Lt Cdr Ben Warlow


Naval-related Code Names - Alphabetically - Chronologically

Royal Navy Minelaying Operations

Warrant Officers in the Royal Navy - a history

Officer/Rating Relationships in the Royal Navy 1941-1972

Pendant Numbers, with Addendum on the Pacific 1944-45 ..... all by Lt Cdr G Mason