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Tony Ditcham, who has died aged 102, was continuously at sea during the Second War World and, as a midshipman, was one of the youngest winners of the Distinguished Service Cross. In the early hours of ...

In January 1944 I was a Wren stationed in Kingswear, South Devon, attached to H.M.S."Cicala" a Coastal Forces Station consisting of Motor Torpedo and Motor Gun Boats used for harrying German E.boats ...

On April 28, 1944, a German E-boat sank two U.S. ships participating in training exercises for the Normandy invasion — a largely unknown incident that claimed the lives of 749 American soldiers and ...

On 14 May 1945, almost a week after Britain and its allies celebrated victory in Europe, Hitler's defeated Atlantic U-boats berthed for the final time. The German submarines – the "U-boat peril" as ...