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Age
20 Years

12th February 1944

An unknown station (very close by) sent “No change of course. Course same”. We had a violent change of course just afterwards!! This was yesterday.

The aircraft carrier appeared to be working overtime this morning. No sooner did two aircraft land than another two took off. We had an excellent view of her because when non aircraft were landing or taking off, she laid very close to us, on our port side.

We could see some of the pilots skipping and doing P.T. this morning. At about 1100 the aircraft carrier morsed to the Commodore that enemy aircraft were 40 miles away. There were 6 fighters up at that time. All guns were manned. About an hour later two fighters returned and soon after the Carrier morsed to the Commodore that they’d got me.

At 1830 we were told enemy aircraft (more than one) 35m away. Very shortly afterwards the alarm bells rang and we manned all guns. Ships were putting up everything they had and it looked very weird in the gathering darkness to see the red tracers slowly feel their way to the target. Some ships fired their rocket guns. At one time the air seemed filled with lead and noise.

Eventually, with the help of the fighters, the planes were drawn off. The fighters had to land on the carrier in the dark. A flaming mass was seen to fall into the sea early on. We don’t know what it was.