43 Canadian Seaman Ray Fitchett POW and HMS Exeter,
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
English - May 31, 2019 17:28 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 174 ratingsHistory Arts Books dunkirk history india ww2 wwii dday secondworldwar war Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
HMS Exeter was sunk in Pacific waters during the second world war. Ray Fitchett made a recording of his tale of survival in Japan – abandoning ship in shark infested waters followed by three years’ captivity as a POW of the second world war.
Hear the terrifying tale of how he survived.
"They decided to put some of us down the coal mine but I didn't fancy that. So I went to the tail end of the queue of guys and I thought I'd get a job at the top of the mine".
"If you got lucky you might pick up some orange peel - You couldn’t eat the whole lot but you could scrape the white part out and that was luxury".
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