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The War at Sea in Photographs - 1939-1945

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The War at Sea in Photographs - 1939-1945

I think this will prove to be a very popular book with all Naval enthusiasts because it contains photographs not previously published. The book states correctly that many photographs in today's private collections were `illegally' shot for sailors as souvenirs by official photographers whilst on board ship - known to the British photographers as `Rabbit work' to supplement their wages. Opening the book at 1941 one inevitably confronts the now familiar sight of HMS Barham blowing up. These pictures are correctly described as `some of the best known of the horrifying last moments of a British Battleship'. John Turner, Gaumont British newsreel cameraman, who captured these images from on board HMS Valiant died 7 March 2007, aged 91. According to this book, reports vary as to the number of torpedoes that struck Barham. I have a copy of the log of HMS Queen Elizabeth for Tuesday 25 November 1941 and it records as follows, `16.25 Barham torpedoed, conning tower of submarine sighted, bearing 210, 1626 emergency turn to starboard, 1629 Barham listing 50 degrees to port, course 320 full ahead 22 knots, 1631 Barham blown up by 3 torpedoes, half of screen detached to save lives'. Whilst I think this is a superb book, it does suffer from having to cover such a long period and all the Navies involved. An example of this is the loss of HMS Ark Royal with just one photograph on Page 82. There exists a magnificent series of books, which admittedly could cost you a lot of money to purchase, `Britain at War the Royal Navy a Complete Record in Text and Pictures'. There were 5 volumes, the volume which covers January 1941 - March 1942 has 387 illustrations and there are five photographs of the sinking of Ark Royal. The one photograph in this book merely states that there is a destroyer alongside taking off crew. In fact I think this is HMS Legion and it is known that some of the crew were taken off by HMS Laforey. Moving forward, another fine example are some excellent photographs of life on board a British Minesweeper, HMS Sandown. Of course what makes this book worth having is the immense variety of photographs in black and white and colour of navies, including Britain (including Commonwealth), USA, Italy and Germany. There are some photographs of crews relaxing such as a cricket net erected on the flight deck of HMS Formidable in Sydney harbour in 1945. However one photograph on Page 137 set me wondering. It was probably taken on HMS Indomitable 10 August 1942. It states that the crew are dispersing on the flight deck. They are all dressed in white shorts and white fronts and look as if they have just been dismissed from divisions. But why are a few Ratings in white shoes and short white socks? This superb book concludes as it should with the Japanese surrender and also U-Boats surrendering - those that did that is. Is there any significance that the last photograph of all shows the crew playing cricket on the flight deck of a British Aircraft Carrier with the caption "This is clearly a no-ball". Being 1945, the bigger game was over and they had been on the winning side - all that had gone before had been "not cricket"!
Фотоальбом посвящённый боям на море второй мировой войны. Ч/б, цв. фото.

Название: The War at Sea in Photographs 1939-1945
Автор: S. Robertson, S.Dent
Издательство: Conway
Год издания: 2007 г.
ISBN: 1844860450
Страниц: 240 pages
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 41,2 Мб

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