The Fighting Captain: Frederic John Walker Rn and the Battle of the Atlantic
by Alan Burn
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Captain F J Walker, RN, did more than any other man at sea to win the Battle of the Atlantic, a vicious and unrelenting struggle which Churchill described as the dominating factor throughout World War Two. He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest fighting captains in the Royal Navy, sinking twenty U-boats. For this he was awarded a CB and four DSOs. A month after D-Day, exhausted by his continuous actions at sea against the enemy and his successful exertions to keep the U-boats out show more of the English Channel to ensure the safe passage of the Allied landings at D-day, he went ashore in Liverpool after a patrol. His ships and the men he had trained and inspired were already back at sea when he died on the 9 July, 1944, aged 48. His ships went on to sink another nine U-boats, bringing his flotillas' total up to twenty-nine, before the U-boat fleet finally surrendered. Fifteen of which were sunk by Walker's own ship, HMS Starling. show lessTags
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- People/Characters
- Frederic John Walker
- Important places
- Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic Ocean
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); Battle of the Atlantic (1939 | 1945)
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- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 359.332092 — Society, Government, and Culture Public administration & military science Naval forces and warfare Organization of military forces Officers; Military hierarchy
- LCC
- D770 .B876 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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