
The Fighting Captain
by
Alan Burn
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781399077279
Publication Date: 06/30/2023
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 history of the Royal Navy, sinking twenty Uboats. For this he was awarded a CB and four DSOs, only the second man in the history of the Royal Navy to receive this award four times.
A month after DDay, exhausted by his continuous actions at sea against the enemy and his successful exertions to keep the Uboats out of the English Channel to ensure the safe passage of the Allied landings at Dday, 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 Uboats, bring his flotillas total up to twentynine, before the Uboat fleet finally surrendered. Fifteen of which were sunk by Walkers own ship, HMS Starling.
He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest fighting captains in the history of the Royal Navy, sinking twenty Uboats. For this he was awarded a CB and four DSOs, only the second man in the history of the Royal Navy to receive this award four times.
A month after DDay, exhausted by his continuous actions at sea against the enemy and his successful exertions to keep the Uboats out of the English Channel to ensure the safe passage of the Allied landings at Dday, 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 Uboats, bring his flotillas total up to twentynine, before the Uboat fleet finally surrendered. Fifteen of which were sunk by Walkers own ship, HMS Starling.
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