Colin Kitching in World War 2

1940

Joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (after an accelerated Modern History course at Hertford College, Oxford University)

1941

HMS Edinburgh as ordinary seaman

Operation EB - capture of the weather ship Muenchen and the Enigma coding tables

Operation Substance - convoy to relieve Malta

1942

Operation Jubilee - the Dieppe Raid

1943

1944

D-Day - a personal memoir

Operation Broom - sweeping Le Havre harbour for "Katie" mines

1945

VE Day Nightmare