Comments on: Sunderland Flying Boats

By: Helen Craig

Helen Craig — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:31:22 +0000

My dad flew with the No.10 Squadron as was a Squadron Leader on the Sunderlander Flying Boats looking for the submarines.
He has told me many stories of landing in the icy waters at Plymouth and limping into port with all the crew on one of the wings to keep it upright and floating into port. Unfortunately he passed away in 2006 aged 83 and never made it back to England to visit again but I will be doing that trip in 2012.

By: Donald Allison

Donald Allison — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:45:55 +0000

My father flew with No.10 Squadron from 39-45 from Mountbatten. I know his Sunderland crashed not far from Plymouth. He almost drowned and injured his back. Don’t know much more regrettably.

By: Brian Rogers

Brian Rogers — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:12:53 +0000

My father, Sydney Rogers, was a Lieutenant in the RAF meteorology service, Mountbatten, during this period. He is still alive (92 years of age) but has little recollection of events during that period – he has dementure and is in a nursing home. I am fairly sure he would not have got a weather forecast so badly wrong as described above. Does anyone remember him?

By: Sam McBride

Sam McBride — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:57:48 +0000

Capt. Frederic Thornton Peters was awarded the VC in May 1943 for heroism in leading the Allied invasion of the port of Oran, Algeria in the early morning of Nov. 8, 1942 in Operation Torch. For the same action, Peters also posthumously received the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross. Peters was a Canadian who joined the Royal Navy in 1905 at age 15 and retired in 13, then rejoined the navy as a destroyer officer at the outbreak of WW1. He won the Distinguished Service Order for heroism in the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915 and the Distinguished Service Cross in 1917 for anti-submarine action. He retired after WW1 in 1919, and then re-enlisted in September 1939 at the outbreak of WW2. He won a bar to his Distinguished Service Cross for sinking two German subs and was then assigned as an instructor in Naval Intelligence before taking charge of Operation Reservist in the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa of November 1942.

By: T R Mills

T R Mills — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:49:51 +0000

It would be nice to know what the Naval Captain was awarded the VC for ?
I served my time in the RAF at Mountbatten and Calshot (5 Years)