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by sallytrim
Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:46 pm
Forum: Actions & Operations
Topic: MTB 256 action 26 July 1944
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Re: MTB 256 action 26 July 1944

Further notes found in my files - list of actions produced in Naval Historical Branch (now at Portsmouth) -"Night of 25/26 July 1944. Command; (Flag Officer British Assault Area, i.e. off Normandy D-day beaches). MTB 730, 702, 714, 721 (all 115ft Fairmile 'D'); MTB 252, 256, 246, 253 (all 14th ...
by sallytrim
Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:50 pm
Forum: Actions & Operations
Topic: MTB 256 action 26 July 1944
Replies: 13
Views: 38893

Re: MTB 256 action 26 July 1944

See obituary for John Peters in the Telegraph 31/12/2013 - John Peters and my father Neville Gordon Oldfield were joint in command on a rotating basis under Chris Mounsey in MTB 256, 14th Flotilla under D.A Shaw - I am advised by G.Hudson that some of the details re. fuel, gun size and "ops. ro...

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