Fighting Captain (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

By Alan Burn

Book Overview

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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844154394
• ISBN13: 9781844154395
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.3"