Table of contents for VCs of the Second World War / by John Frayn Turner.


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1      The Battle of Narvik                                      1
BERNARD WARBURTON-LEE
2      Glowworm versus Hipper                                    8
GERARD ROOPE
3      Trawler at Namsos                                       11
RICHARD STANNARD
4      Two Bridge-busters                                       14
DONALD GARLAND AND THOMAS GRAY
5      The Fight for France                                     19
RICHARD ANNAND, HARRY NICHOLLS, GEORGE GRISTOCK,
CHRISTOPHER FURNESS, HAROLD ERVINE-ANDREWS
6      Wounded in a Dozen Places                               24
JACK MANTLE
7      Raid on the Dortmund-Ems Canal                          25
RODERICK LEAROYD
8      The Battle of Britain                                   29
JAMES NICOLSON
9      Firefighting in the Air                                 31
JOHN HANNAH
10     Saga of the Jervis Bay                                  34
EDWARD FOGARTY FEGEN
11     Ship-busters against Gneisenau                          38
KENNETH CAMPBELL
12     Mainly Mediterranean                                    42
ERIC WILSON, NIGEL LEAKEY, JOHN HINTON, ALFRED HULME,
CHARLES UPHAM, JOHN EDMONDSON, ARTHUR CUTLER, JAMES GORDON
13     Killed by dive-bombers                                  50
ALFRED SEPHTON
14     Malta Submariner Supreme                                 51
MALCOLM WANKLYN
15     Australian against Bremen                                57
HUGHIE EDWARDS
16     Wing-walking to Fight Fire                               61
JAMES WARD
17     Six Desert VCs in Ten Days                               65
GEOFFREY KEYES, GEORGE GUNN, JOHN BEELEY,
JOHN CAMPBELL, PHILIP GARDNER, JAMES JACKMAN
18     Japan Enters the War                                     73
ARTHUR SCARF
19     Bayonets out East                                        76
JOHN OSBORN, ARTHUR CUMMING, CHARLES ANDERSON,
BRUCE KINGSBURY, JOHN FRENCH
20     Biplanes against Battleships                              80
EUGENE ESMONDE
21     The Little Li Wo                                          85
THOMAS WILKINSON
22     Bomb-disposal on Submarine                               89
PETER ROBERTS, THOMAS GOULD
23     Submarine attack in Corfu Harbour                        93
ANTHONY MIERS
24     The Raid on St Nazaire                                   97
ROBERT RYDER, STEPHEN BEATTIE, WILLIAM SAVAGE,
AUGUSTUS NEWMAN, FRANK DURRANT
25     Rooftop Raid on Augsburg                                110
JOHN NETTLETON
26     Self-sacrifice in 1,000-plane Raid                      114
LESLIE MANSER
27     Tanks in the Desert                                     117
HENRY FOOTE, QUENTIN SMYTHE, ADAM WAKENSHAW,
KEITH ELLIOTT, ARTHUR GURNEY
28     The Dieppe Raid                                         121
PATRICK PORTEOUS, CHARLES MERRITT, JOHN FOOTE
29     El Alamein and Tebourba                                124
WILLIAM KIBBY, PERCIVAL GRATWICK, VICTOR TURNER,
HERBERT LE PATOUREL
30     Cutter at Oran                                         131
FREDERICK PETERS
31     Wounded but Brought Bomber Home                        133
RAWDON MIDDLETON
32     Ten Out of Ten Planes Lost                             137
HUGH MALCOLM
33     Russian Convoy                                         141
ROBERT SHERBROOKE
34     Fifty-two Far East Missions                            145
WILLIAM NEWTON
35     Valour and Victory in Africa                           147
DEREK SEAGRIM, MOANA-NUI-A-KIWA NGARIMU, LORNE CAMPBELL,
ERIC ANDERSON, JOHN ANDERSON, WILLWARD CLARKE,
LORD LYELL, JOHN KENNEALLY
36     One out of Eleven Bombers Survived                     156
LEONARD TRENT
37     HM Submarine Turbulent                                 160
JOHN LINTON
38     The Dam Busters                                        163
GUY GIBSON
39     First VC Attack on U-boat                              170
LLOYD TRIGG
40     Shot in Face; Brought Bomber Back                      174
ARTHUR AARON
41     Midget Sub Versus Tirpitz                              177
DONALD CAMERON, BASIL PLACE
42     The Immortal Chindits                                  184
RICHARD KELLIHER, THOMAS DERRICK, ALEC HORWOOD,
CHARLES HOEY, GEORGE CAIRNS, JOHN HARMAN, JOHN RANDLE
43     From Salerno to Anzio                                  191
PETER WRIGHT, PAUL TRIQUET, WILLIAM SIDNEY
(LORD DE L'ISLE & DUDLEY)
44     Wounded Pilot in Defenceless Lancaster                   196
WILLIAM REID
45     The Indian and Nepalese VCs                              200
PREMINDRA SINGH BHAGAT, RICHPAL RAM, LALBAHADUR THAPA,
CHHELU RAM, PARKASH SINGH, GAJE GHALE, NAND SINGH,
ABDUL HAFIZ, KAMAL RAM, YESHWANT GHADGE, GANJU LAMA,
NETRABAHADUR THAPA, AGANSING RAI, TULBAHADUR PUN,
SHER BAHADUR THAPA, THAMAN GURUNG, RAM SARUP SINGH,
BHANDARI RAM, UMRAO SINGH, SHER SHAH, PARKASH SINGH,
FAZAL DIN, GIAN SINGH, BHANBHAGTA GURUNG, KARAMJEET SINGH JUDGE,
ALI HAIDAR, NAMDEO JADHAO, LACHHIMAN GURUNG
46      I Hope You Never Receive This ...                       215
CYRIL BARTON
47     Firefighting Outside a Lancaster                         219
NORMAN JACKSON
48      Cassino and After                                       222
RICHARD WAKEFORD, ARTHUR JEFFERSON, JOHN MAHONY,
MAURICE ROGERS
49     Triumph in Normandy                                      228
STANLEY HOLLIS, SIDNEY BATES, DAVID JAMIESON, TASKER WATKINS,
DAVID CURRIE
50     Hitting Back in Burma                                    234
HANSON TURNER, MICHAEL ALLMAND, FRANK BLAKER,
SEFANAIA SUKANAIVALU
51     Polish-Canadian Hero                                     238
ANDREW MYNARSKI
52     Coastal Command Epic                                     241
DAVID HORNELL
53      Struck in Seventy-two Places by Flak                    245
JOHN CRUICKSHANK
54     Pathfinder Supreme                                       249
LEONARD CHESHIRE
55     Pathfinder's Sacrifice                                   253
IAN BAZALGETTE
56     Busting Gothic Line                                      256
GEORGE MITCHELL, GERARD NORTON, RICHARD BURTON
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57      The Glory that was Arnhem                                 261
JOHN GRAYBURN, LIONEL QUERIPEL, JOHN BASKEYFIELD, ROBERT CAIN
58      Dakota Captain at Arnhem                                  266
DAVID LORD
59      Into the Low Countries                                    268
JOHN HARPER, GEORGE EARDLEY, DENNIS DONNINI, HENRY HARDEN,
AUBREY COSENS, FREDERICK TILSTON, JAMES STOKES
60      Italian Winter and Spring                                 275
ERNEST SMITH, JOHN BRUNT, THOMAS HUNTER, ANDERS LASSEN
61      111 Bomber Missions                                       280
ROBERT PALMER
62      Scots VC on New Year's Day                                282
GEORGE THOMPSON
63      Self-sacrifice in Burma                                   286
GEORGE KNOWLAND, WILLIAM WESTON , CLAUDE RAYMOND,
REGINALD RATTEY
64      South African Pathfinder                                  291
EDWIN SWALES
65      Victory in Europe                                         293
FREDERICK TOPHAM, EDWARD CHAPMAN, IAN LIDDELL,
EDWARD CHARLTON
66      Aussies Finish it Off                                     298
JOHN MACKEY, EDWARD KENNA, LESLIE STARCEVICH, FRANK PARTRIDGE
67      Midget Sub in Singapore                                   302
IAN FRASER, JAMES MAGENNIS
68      The Last Week of the War ...                              306
ROBERT GRAY
Second World War Victoria Cross Holders                   308
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Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: World War, 1939-1945 Medals, Victoria Cross, Commonwealth countries Armed Forces Biography