Interview with Jack Thomas Wright

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British seaman served aboard HMS Anthony, 13th Destroyer Flotilla in Mediterranean, 4/1943-7/1943; served aboard HMS Belfast, 18th Cruiser Sqdn, Home Fleet in Arctic, 1943; officer served with Combined Operations in English Channel, 1944; served aboard LCT 1319 in Indian Ocean, 1944-1946

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REEL 1 Background in Barnet, GB, 1924-1942: family; education; fashioning blade from shrapnel; German Air Force attacks in Barnet area; use of air raid shelter. Aspects of enlistment and training under Y Scheme, Royal Navy in GB, 7/1942-3/1943: background to volunteering for service with Royal Navy, 7/1942; winter conditions on arrival at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, 1/1943; question of not being able to swim. Recollections of operations as seaman aboard HMS Anthony, 13th Destroyer Flotilla in Mediterranean, 4/1943-7/1943: duties as lookout; treatment as potential officer at HMS Collingwood, Fareham; seasickness on voyage to Casablanca, French Morocco. REEL 2 Continues: convoy escort duties in Mediterranean; role as flag signaller on leaving harbour; being put on charge for losing cap; opinion of captain Lieutenant Commander John Wallace; an attempted case of theft in Casablanca, French Morocco; contracting gastro enteritis at Malta; attack on German submarine; attitude towards German submariners; guard duties on damaged oil drums; sight of German prisoners of war being loaded onto merchant vessels; bombardment of Pantelleria and Lampedusa Islands, Italy. REEL 3 Continues: impressions of Malta; incident of Axis aircraft dive-bombing in Gibraltar; home leave. Recollections of operations as seaman aboard HMS Belfast, 18th Cruiser Sqdn, Home Fleet in Arctic, 10/1943-1/1944: background to drafting to ship after officer training course; ashore in Scapa Flow; initial impressions of cruiser; joining writers' messdeck and role as commanders' runner; action station. REEL 4 Continues: initial confusion in finding way around on joining ship; conditions in Arctic; conditions for Soviet civilians in Murmansk, Soviet Union; strength of flotilla; death of reindeer gifted by Soviets; reaction to start of Battle of North Cape in Arctic, 26/12/1943; atmosphere aboard ship during engagement with German battleship Scharnhorst; receiving message that HMS Duke of York had joined engagement; reaction to sinking of German battleship Scharnhorst; commissioning after training at HMS King Alfred, Hove after leaving HMS Belfast, 1/1944-5/1944. Recollections of period as officer with Combined Operations aboard landing craft in English Channel, 5/1944-7/1944: drafting to landing craft; taking metal airfield strips to Normandy, France; relations with crew and American military personnel. REEL 5 Continues: situation after fighting and disposal of bodies floating in water on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944; ashore in Normandy, France; attitude towards white American military personnel behaviour to black personnel; conditions on board landing craft including relations with crew; handling of landing craft. Aspects of period as officer aboard LCT 1319 in Indian Ocean, 1944-1946: character of experimental voyage across Indian Ocean from Port Tewfik, Egypt; amusing story of visit by senior officer; behaviour of dock workers in Bombay, India. REEL 6 Continues: training with Duplex Drive Amphibious tanks of 25th Dragoons; opinion of crew; attempts to recover stolen lanterns in out of bounds area of Bombay, India; demobilisation, 10/1946; attitude to serving with Royal Navy during Second World War.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Hewitt, Nick (Recorder)
Wright, Jack Thomas (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2004-04-15
Dimensions: whole: Duration 160, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 26978

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