Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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On , the British cruiser HMS Dido was en route to Copenhagen Denmark. At one point during the journey, a lone German aircraft approached the ship. The Dido's guns fired one shot and the plane flew away - it was VE day and that was the last shot fired in the Second World War in Europe.
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Read More »On May 8, 1945, the British cruiser HMS Dido was en route to Copenhagen Denmark. At one point during the journey, a lone German aircraft approached the ship. The Dido's guns fired one shot and the plane flew away - it was VE day and that was the last shot fired in the Second World War in Europe. The Dido was the ship adopted by the people of Bolton during the war. During one amazing week in October 1941, the town raised £1 million to have the ship built. On board the Dido, from her launch to the day she accepted the surrender of the German Fleet in Copenhagen, was Eric Jeffs, a "Tiffy", officially an "Engine Room Artificer" or ERA. "Apart from a few old newspaper cuttings, some faint and well-worn internal notices and some photographs, I have no diaries or literature to which I can refer, I have to rely on my memories, some happy, some not." There can be few ships that saw as much action as the Dido. After convoy duties in the Atlantic, she took part in the evacuation of Crete, the Malta convoys, the North African landings, the invasion of Sicily and Italy, Russian convoys and operations off Norway. As if that was not enough, the Dido accepted the surrender of the German Fleet and, just a few months after the end of the war, took King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the Isle of Man. I was an ordinary sailor, one who was not privy to the greater picture. In fact, hidden away in the engine room, sometimes all I knew of a battle was the sound of guns firing and bombs exploding. The unconscious humour of the British fighting man is always close to the surface, of course. After the Atlantic convoys, new orders: "Our destination was a strictly guarded secret, except that lashed on deck were crates marked 'RN Dockyard, Gibraltar' and 'RN Stores, Malta'." As part of the Mediterranean Fleet, Dido found herself in the thick of the action. On May 21 and 22, 1941, the Dido and two other ships, the Ajax and the Orion, stopped an attempted sea-borne invasion of Crete, although the Germans later succeeded by using parachutists. We met and destroyed a number of small ships, a destroyer and 2,500 men. Our gun barrels were glowing red hot from continuous firing at German and Italian planes.
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Read More »A lot of people died, and not pleasantly either, but we were trained to do a job, we did it and, as a result, the ship was able to steam on and, probably, less people died. Had I been standing a yard away from where I was when the bomb hit, I wouldn't be around today." In the way that wars go, within a week the Dido was berthed in the Brooklyn naval yard in New York where she was repaired and some items, such as radar, were updated. A week's training in Bermuda followed before, and after this welcome respite, she was sent back to the Mediterranean.
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