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British officer served aboard HMS Punjabi, 6th Destroyer Flotilla during Norwegian campaign, 1940
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REEL 1 Recollections of operations as officer aboard HMS Punjabi, 6th Destroyer Flotilla during Norwegian Campaign, 1940: character of ship; memories of ship's captain Commander John Trevor Lean; story of breach of discipline and how captain handled it; duties; sailing for Norway with 6th Destroyer Flotilla; reaction to arrival in Norway; engaging German destroyers and shore batteries at Narvik, 13/4/1940; damage to ship; reaction to being under fire; casualties on board; performance of gun crews; ships' withdrawing from action; sight of damage to HMS Eskimo; sight of sunken German destroyers in Narvik harbour.
REEL 2 Continues: order to withdraw from fiord; patching up of ship; return to Scapa Flow with German naval POWs; behaviour of German POWs; burial of dead at sea; sight of German aircraft in fiord; degree of knowledge of German numbers; reaction to heading up fiord; sight of aftermath of First Battle of Narvik.
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