Alister In WW2

I like my contemporaries and our children have been very lucky. We have not had to endure the misery and deprivation caused by war as my par...

On the 20th May as HX-126 steamed towards the UK a German fleet including the battle ship Bismark was coming the other way. Luckily for HX...

The attack on convoy HX-126 started at 02:50 GMT on 20th May 1941. As the light came up at 06:20 GMT, and the escort Aurania noticed that th...

One other ship that started out with HX-126 was sunk. After scattering from HX-126 on 20th May 1941 the Barnby did not rejoin the convoy whe...

At 03:39 on 21st May Elusa was hit by a stray torpedo. The ship, a tanker carrying gasoline caught fire. The crew abandoned ship. U-boat n...