Frederick B. Watt
Forfatter af In All Respects Ready: The Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945
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In All Respects Ready: The Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945 (1985) 22 eksemplarer
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The Naval Boarding Service started in Halifax because most convoys left from there in the War's early years but when it proved so successful at solving shipping issues, it was implemented in all Canadian ports and eventually American and British ones as well. Watt was the officer put in charge of the NBS in Halifax at the beginning so he is an excellent source for how it developed. He is also a very good writer which made this book very readable. In 1943 he published a narrative poem entitled Who dare to Live in both Canada and the United States.… (mere)