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| The Battle of the Atlantic WW2 | |
| By roy | ||||
| 27 May 2007 | ||||
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A tribute to the Merchant Navy who are often overlooked THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC WW2UNDER THE OLD RED DUSTER(The Merchant Navy Ensign)We all know of Mighty Hood that was sunk by a Bismarck shell We know how many men were lost and the Skippers name as well The Repulse and Prince of Wales when bound for a Far East post Both lost to the Jap torpedo planes off the Malaya coast There’s a film about the Kelly sunk in the battle of Crete And of the famous River Plate where we inflicted defeat Though history reveres the ships the Royal Navy lost It was the Merchant Navy that really paid the cost But who could name the merchant ships now on the ocean bed Who could number the sailors lost? Who mourns these courageous dead? No one can doubt their courage or the terrible price they paid Caught up in the naval conflict on ships that were built to trade Wallowing along in a rusting tramp supplying our war torn nation Struggling to make eight knots whilst trying to keep station Watching a nearby ship go down when a torpedo struck seeing your comrades drowning and praying for better luck What of the men on the Arctic run ferrying Russian supplies Through wolf pack fleets of U-boats and Bomber laden skies Crewing a gas filled Tanker some only in their teens Wondering if they’ll freeze to death or be blown to smithereens Many a merchant ship now lies under the Barents Sea Lost in a desperate struggle to set the Russians free The ocean bed is littered with merchant seaman’s bones Now to lay forever at peace with Davy Jones As a Nation we are rightly proud of the R.N. in World War Two Likewise of the R.A.F and what we owe to the few To the men who fought at Arnhem and Monty’s Desert Rats To those who fought the Japanese, to all we raise our hats From the Home Guard to the S.O.E. in it from the start All of our Armed Services were keen to play their part Each had lost so many when they counted the final muster But the greatest loss was from those who sailed under THE OLD RED DUSTER roy
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