Cool, which boats was he on?
I’m not sure which boats but I know he was deployed to Gibraltar/Malta between ‘41 and ‘43. In ‘43, he was redeployed to the North Sea. He was invalided out that same year after he lost 3 fingers in an accident. He was a very happy man but felt guilty about leaving his shipmates.
He talked a lot about the sheer terror of being depth charged, especially when they lost electrical power and they could hear rivets pinging in the darkness but what pissed him most was a bunch of Italian survivors that they’d surfaced to take on wouldn’t stop complaining about the stench and hygiene of the boat. More than one jack tar wanted to push them out via the tubes. LOL!