2 海面过于汹涌，无法重新登船，且在激烈的追击下，莱科克上校命令幸存者分散并藏匿于崎岖地带。只有莱科克上校和在攻击德国总部时表现突出的特里军士，在经历了五周的困苦和绝望的冒险后，最终回到了我方防线。Chapter 17
1 Paragraphs 9, 10, 14, 15, and 16 are omitted for reasons of space.
2 Commander Thompson, R.N.
3 Thomas Campbell’s *Lord Ullin’s Daughter*.
Appendix C, Book One
1 P.F.: An early type of proximity fuze.
2 A.D.: A rocket and parachute device for use against aircraft.
3 A Communist circular addressed to all active working men and women.
4 A highly successful raid was carried out in the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway on March 4, 1941, by two Commandos. Important enemy supplies and much shipping were destroyed, two hundred German prisoners taken and 314 Norwegian volunteers brought safely out. In a second raid, carried out December 26, the port was again occupied temporarily by our forces.
5 This is a reply to a minute from the Minister of Home Security, the Secretary of State for Air, and the Minister of Information about measures to check the spread of harmful rumours about air-raid casualties and damage.
6 Castelorizzo Island lies midway between Rhodes and Cyprus and forms a link in the chain reaching out from the Dodecanese towards Syria. A British Commando occupied this island on February 25 after slight opposition. The naval forces then withdrew to Cyprus without watching events. Later heavy air attacks developed and the enemy landed reinforcement, unopposed by our naval forces. It was necessary to abandon the island.
7 D.F.: Direction-finding equipment used to determine the direction of the source of a wireless signal.
8 A.S.V.: Airborne radar.
9 The Actaeon net defence against torpedoes was being developed for use in merchant ships. It could not be towed by escort vessels without seriously hampering their freedom of movement. See Volume I, page 727.
10 The *Gneisenau* had in fact been torpedoed in Brest Harbour on April 6 by an aircraft of Coastal Command. In this gallant attack the aircraft and all the crew were lost. The pilot was awarded a posthumous V.C. A few days later Bomber Command aircraft scored four hits on the same ship with bombs. These successes were not known to us at the time. In July the *Scharnhorst* moved from Brest to La Pallice, in the Bay of Biscay, for trials and sea training, but three days later she was successfully bombed in harbour there and severely damaged. She returned to Brest for further extensive repairs.
11 General Ismay, for C.O.S. Committee 1.IX.40: Of course, if the glider scheme is better than parachutes, we should pursue it, but is it being seriously taken up? Are we not in danger of being fobbed off with one doubtful and experimental policy and losing the other which has already been proved? Let me have a full report of what has been done about the gliders.
12 13 See footnote at page 760.
14 About four hundred Polish officers were sent as proposed to the West African Division and served with high credit.
15 This minute shows the genesis of the landing-craft flak (L.C.F.), which was a converted tank-landing-craft carrying a powerful battery of light and anti-aircraft guns. It was used to provide close air defence to landing-craft during an assault. Six of these were in service by May, 1942, and thereafter the numbers greatly increased.
Appendix D, Book One
16 See Book One, Chapter 3, page 39 et seq.
Appendix E, Book One
17 The losses in December include about 270,000 tons lost in the Far East. Of this 194,000 tons was British.
Appendix F, Book One
18 Extra to original 57.
19 One South African division extra to original 57.
Appendix A, Book Two
20 C.I.G.S.’s Minute of 5.VII.41, referring to the Prime Minister’s request for a detailed distribution list of equipment, by formations, in the Middle East.
21 About deliveries of Martlet II aircraft.
22 About the action of the 2nd Armoured Division during the withdrawal from Cyrenaica, in March and April, 1941.
23 This refers to a Minute from Mr. Amery about conditions in Burma and a proposed visit to this country by the Burmese Premier, U Saw.
24 This refers to a minute about Blenheim attacks on shipping in Rotterdam.
25 This refers to early plans for atom-bomb research, for which we used the code-word “Tube Alloys.”
26 The explanation divided the responsibility to an extent which was difficult to follow by disciplinary action.
27 This was the U-boat captured by a Hudson aircraft in the western approaches in August 1911. See Book Two, Chapter 7, “The Mounting Strength of Britain,” page 519.
28 Later types of British fighters could not at this time be spared by the R.A.F. for the use of the Navy. (See also minute of 16.VIII.41, pages 809–10.)
29 Wing-Commander “Paddy” Finucane, D.F.C. and two bars, was killed at the age of twenty-two in July, 1942, when after continuous exploits, he was leading a fighter wing in a mass attack on enemy targets in France. It was always said that the Luftwaffe would never get him, and it was actually a ground shot from an unusual single machine-gun post which hit his Spitfire. He flew slowly out to sea, talking calmly to his comrades. Finally, when ten miles from the French coast, he sent his last message, spoken probably as his engine stopped: “This is it, chaps.” He crashed from about ten feet above the sea, and his machine sank at once. Finucane had always vowed not to be taken prisoner, and it was probably this that made him fly out to sea rather than inland, where he would have had a good chance of survival.
30 Unrotated Projectile. Disguised name for rocket. See footnote to minute of 6.XII.41, page 838.
1 Paragraphs 9, 10, 14, 15, and 16 are omitted for reasons of space.
2 Commander Thompson, R.N.
3 Thomas Campbell’s *Lord Ullin’s Daughter*.
Appendix C, Book One
1 P.F.: An early type of proximity fuze.
2 A.D.: A rocket and parachute device for use against aircraft.
3 A Communist circular addressed to all active working men and women.
4 A highly successful raid was carried out in the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway on March 4, 1941, by two Commandos. Important enemy supplies and much shipping were destroyed, two hundred German prisoners taken and 314 Norwegian volunteers brought safely out. In a second raid, carried out December 26, the port was again occupied temporarily by our forces.
5 This is a reply to a minute from the Minister of Home Security, the Secretary of State for Air, and the Minister of Information about measures to check the spread of harmful rumours about air-raid casualties and damage.
6 Castelorizzo Island lies midway between Rhodes and Cyprus and forms a link in the chain reaching out from the Dodecanese towards Syria. A British Commando occupied this island on February 25 after slight opposition. The naval forces then withdrew to Cyprus without watching events. Later heavy air attacks developed and the enemy landed reinforcement, unopposed by our naval forces. It was necessary to abandon the island.
7 D.F.: Direction-finding equipment used to determine the direction of the source of a wireless signal.
8 A.S.V.: Airborne radar.
9 The Actaeon net defence against torpedoes was being developed for use in merchant ships. It could not be towed by escort vessels without seriously hampering their freedom of movement. See Volume I, page 727.
10 The *Gneisenau* had in fact been torpedoed in Brest Harbour on April 6 by an aircraft of Coastal Command. In this gallant attack the aircraft and all the crew were lost. The pilot was awarded a posthumous V.C. A few days later Bomber Command aircraft scored four hits on the same ship with bombs. These successes were not known to us at the time. In July the *Scharnhorst* moved from Brest to La Pallice, in the Bay of Biscay, for trials and sea training, but three days later she was successfully bombed in harbour there and severely damaged. She returned to Brest for further extensive repairs.
11 General Ismay, for C.O.S. Committee 1.IX.40: Of course, if the glider scheme is better than parachutes, we should pursue it, but is it being seriously taken up? Are we not in danger of being fobbed off with one doubtful and experimental policy and losing the other which has already been proved? Let me have a full report of what has been done about the gliders.
12 13 See footnote at page 760.
14 About four hundred Polish officers were sent as proposed to the West African Division and served with high credit.
15 This minute shows the genesis of the landing-craft flak (L.C.F.), which was a converted tank-landing-craft carrying a powerful battery of light and anti-aircraft guns. It was used to provide close air defence to landing-craft during an assault. Six of these were in service by May, 1942, and thereafter the numbers greatly increased.
Appendix D, Book One
16 See Book One, Chapter 3, page 39 et seq.
Appendix E, Book One
17 The losses in December include about 270,000 tons lost in the Far East. Of this 194,000 tons was British.
Appendix F, Book One
18 Extra to original 57.
19 One South African division extra to original 57.
Appendix A, Book Two
20 C.I.G.S.’s Minute of 5.VII.41, referring to the Prime Minister’s request for a detailed distribution list of equipment, by formations, in the Middle East.
21 About deliveries of Martlet II aircraft.
22 About the action of the 2nd Armoured Division during the withdrawal from Cyrenaica, in March and April, 1941.
23 This refers to a Minute from Mr. Amery about conditions in Burma and a proposed visit to this country by the Burmese Premier, U Saw.
24 This refers to a minute about Blenheim attacks on shipping in Rotterdam.
25 This refers to early plans for atom-bomb research, for which we used the code-word “Tube Alloys.”
26 The explanation divided the responsibility to an extent which was difficult to follow by disciplinary action.
27 This was the U-boat captured by a Hudson aircraft in the western approaches in August 1911. See Book Two, Chapter 7, “The Mounting Strength of Britain,” page 519.
28 Later types of British fighters could not at this time be spared by the R.A.F. for the use of the Navy. (See also minute of 16.VIII.41, pages 809–10.)
29 Wing-Commander “Paddy” Finucane, D.F.C. and two bars, was killed at the age of twenty-two in July, 1942, when after continuous exploits, he was leading a fighter wing in a mass attack on enemy targets in France. It was always said that the Luftwaffe would never get him, and it was actually a ground shot from an unusual single machine-gun post which hit his Spitfire. He flew slowly out to sea, talking calmly to his comrades. Finally, when ten miles from the French coast, he sent his last message, spoken probably as his engine stopped: “This is it, chaps.” He crashed from about ten feet above the sea, and his machine sank at once. Finucane had always vowed not to be taken prisoner, and it was probably this that made him fly out to sea rather than inland, where he would have had a good chance of survival.
30 Unrotated Projectile. Disguised name for rocket. See footnote to minute of 6.XII.41, page 838.