Posted on 03/17/2024 11:28:58 AM PDT by beaversmom
A teenage cook whose heroics onboard a warship helped shorten the Second World War has been honoured in his home town after a public vote.
The regenerated centre of North Shields, North Tyneside, has been named after Thomas Brown, who was awarded the George Medal for helping to retrieve codebooks from a sinking German U-boat in October 1942.
The books were later used to crack the Enigma code by experts at Bletchley Park, enabling the British to decipher Nazi messages.
Two naval men died while searching the stricken submarine but Thomas, a 15-year-old civilian who lied about his age to work in the canteen on HMS Petard, survived and managed to save the books from the sea.
A teenage cook whose heroics onboard a warship helped shorten the Second World War has been honoured in his home town after a public vote.
The regenerated centre of North Shields, North Tyneside, has been named after Thomas Brown, who was awarded the George Medal for helping to retrieve codebooks from a sinking German U-boat in October 1942.
The books were later used to crack the Enigma code by experts at Bletchley Park, enabling the British to decipher Nazi messages.
Two naval men died while searching the stricken submarine but Thomas, a 15-year-old civilian who lied about his age to work in the canteen on HMS Petard, survived and managed to save the books from the sea.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Behind a paywall. No thanks.
Huhhh?
I been framed!!
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There are two things FReepers never do:
1. Read the story before making comments.
2. Post the story without previewing it first................
How sad....
First of all, I was not in a hurry to get the “scoop” as the story was already two days old when I posted it. But I was in somewhat of a hurry to post so I could finish getting ready for work.
Secondly, I posted from my cellphone so that always makes it a bit challenging.
Thirdly, my close up vision sucks right now because of recent cataract surgery on my left eye so I also have that in my defense.
If there is a sticking out tongue emoji, imagine that added on to the post...posted twice...one for each...CT and RB.
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