Interview with Norman Ernest Draper

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British officer served with G1 Commando, Royal Navy, Combined Operations in GB, Mediterranean and Italy, 1943-1944; served with 9th Motor Launch Flotilla, Coastal Forces in Mediterranean, 1945

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REEL 1 Background in Leyton, GB, 1924-1942: family; education; evacuations to Torquay and Uckfield, 1939-1941; plotting fall of German Air Force bombs which fell in River Thames as sea scout, 1941. Aspects of enlistment and training with Royal Navy in GB, 1942-1943: volunteering for Royal Navy, 7/1942; training at HMS Collingwood, Fareham from 9/1942; officer cadet training and commissioning at Lochailort, early 1943. Recollections of operations as officer with G1 Naval Commando, Royal Navy, Combined Operations in GB, Mediterranean and Italy, 1943-1944: posting to HMS Armadillo at Ardentinny; character of landing craft training; voyage aboard HMT Llangibby Castle from River Clyde to Mediterranean, summer, 1943. REEL 2 Continues: landing platoon of Canadian Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, Canadian Army on Sicily, Italy; method of detecting underwater obstacles on beaches; move to Pachino, Sicily; unloading work and evacuation of Italian prisoners of war; description of term Landing Craft Assault (LCA); landing 231st Infantry Bde at Vibo Valentia on Italian mainland, 3/9/1943; move to Andria, near Bari, 10/1940 and arrival of G2 and G3 Naval Commandos; move to Termoli, 10/1943; use of Italian motor torpedo boats to rescue escaped Allied prisoners of war; incident of being stranded ashore during prisoner of war rescue mission, 11/1943; use of fishing boat to sail to Termoli, 11/1943. REEL 3 Continues: German artillery shelling of motor torpedo boat on second trip to pick up escaped prisoners of war; 11/1943; swimming away from stricken vessel; swimming ashore and evading Germans with aid from Italian civilians, 11/1943; escape back to Termoli, 11/1943; return to Andria, 12/1943; on port duties at Barletta, early 1944 including unloading gas supplies; memories of Captain Archibald Jack at Barletta, 1944; visit by Lord Louis Mountbatten. REEL 4 Continues: embarking aboard Coastal Forces depot ship HMS Vienna in Sicily for return voyage to GB, 9/1944; problems entering Liverpool, GB; evening at Bagatelle Night Club in London, autumn 1944; disbanding of G1 Naval Commando, 11/1944. Aspects of period as officer with Coastal Forces in GB and Mediterranean, 1945-1946: drafting to HMS Beehive, Felixstowe, GB; first encounter with Wren on board motor torpedo boat; drafting to 9th Motor Launch Flotilla in Mediterranean, 7/1945-12/1945; handling of motor launches; mine sweeping duties off Yugoslavia; VJ celebrations off Trieste, Italy, 15/8/1945. REEL 5 Continues: fate of motor launches; duties checking brothels at Messina, Italy; work removing tugs from Venice, Italy, 1/1946; sailing landing craft between Malta to Bizerte, early 1946.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Draper, Norman Ernest (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1997-05-26
Dimensions: whole: Duration 100, Number Of Items 5
Catalogue number: 17436

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