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Originally Posted by flag4
"...Interestingly enough one of those destroyers in Narvik can still be seen, the captain knew she was sinking so rammed her into the side of the fjord, unlike other destroyers that did the same this one caught on a ledge with the bow protruding from the water and is still there to this day..."
Ford Prefect, do you have a photo - not of your Dad!, but the sunken boat...interesting stuff. 
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Unfortunately my hobby with photography didn't catch on until a few years later and I never managed to get back to see the wreck again dispite passing through narvik several more times on my trips through norway. I'm sure there are pictures about though, if you can find info about the battle for narvik during the norwegian campaign of 1940 you'll likely find the sunken destroyers names and be able to trace from there. I'm kinda busy at the moment, putting warmed olive oil in my left ear to try and shift the wax that's sent me deaf in said ear, else I'd search myself.
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Originally Posted by Hitman
So he was 14 in 1939?
And therefore, 20 in 1945
OK, he could have sailed late in the war, but I doubt much it was in 1939  |
There were boys aged 14 in the trenches in the first war, most lads would have been starting work at that age at that time, it's perfectly plausible to think he could have been on a ship, probably no more than a tea boy but he could have been there certainly.