Interview with Douglas Hadfield

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British officer served as radar officer aboard HMS Hesperus 19th Escort Group in GB coastal waters and North Atlantic, 3/1944-12/1944; served aboard HMS Goodall and HMS Loch Shin, 19th Escort Group in GB coastal waters and Arctic, 12/1944-5/1945; served with Combined Operations in Indian Ocean, 1945-1946

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REEL 1 Background in GB, 1922-1943: family; education. Aspects of enlistment and training as officer with Royal Navy in GB, 1943-1944: background to enlistment, 8/1943; joining course at Portsmouth; acquiring 'officer like qualities'; training as radar officer; description of radar set; character of Captain Class frigates; training in Liverpool. Aspects of operations as radar officer with HMS Hesperus, 19th Escort Group in North Atlantic, English Channel and North Sea, 3/1944-12/1944: appointment to destroyer and group; character of captain Commander George Legassick; convoy escort duties to Gibraltar, 3/1944; amusing story of escort group captain's response to signal. REEL 2 Continues: system for changing radar set values; accommodation and working arrangements; incident of drunken navigator guiding ship through minefield; sleeping in hammock; effect on radar set of Captain Class frigates' movement; story of dealing with broken down radar set, 6/1944; anti-submarine operations in North Sea and English Channel; sinking of HMS Bullen off Cape Wrath, North Atlantic, 6/12/1944; rescue duties after sinking of HMS Bullen, 6/12/1944. REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of period as radar officer aboard HMS Goodall and HMS Loch Shin, 19th Escort Group in GB coastal waters and Arctic, 12/1944-5/1945: Convoy JW 66 to Vanga Bay, Kola Inlet, Soviet Union aboard HMS Goodall, 16/4/1945-25/4/1945; how captain Lieutenant Commander James Fulton joined ship in Bristol Channel, GB, 25/12/1944; use of Squib Depth Charger on board ship; character of Loch Class frigates; transfer to HMS Loch Shin, 4/1945; ashore in Vanga Bay, Kola Inlet, Soviet Union, 4/1945; reaction to sight of torpedoing of HMS Goodall by German submarine U-256 at entrance to Kola Inlet, Soviet Union, 29/4/1945; sinking of submarines U-286 and U-307 during return Convoy RA 66, 29/4/1945; attitude towards service with Royal Navy. Aspects of period as radar officer with Combined Operations in Indian Ocean, 1945-1946: appointment to Far East; duties aboard headquarters ship during Operation Zipper, 9/1945. REEL 4 Continues: victory parade in Port Dickson, Malaya; duties in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies; taking Chinese mayor to Singapore, Malaya in Landing Craft Tank (LST), 12/1945; learning Japanese language in transit camp in Ceylon. Aspects of period as radar officer aboard HMS Glasgow in Indian Ocean, 1946: rapid move to deal with Royal Indian Navy Mutiny in Bombay, India, 18/2/1946-25/2/1945; move to Simontown, South Africa via French Madagascar; ashore in South Africa and future marriage; return to GB in troopship for demobilisation; attitude towards service with Royal Navy.

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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)
McDonough, Richard (Recorder)
Hadfield, Douglas (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2015-04-14
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 34138

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