When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the
Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion
in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting
that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine earned the
Victoria Cross; three members of the Royal Navy, including a Fleet
Air Arm pilot, four soldiers, including a member of the Australian
forces, and two RAF pilots. The author looks at the seven Irish
regiments in campaigns across the globe, at Irish soldiers across
the Army, at Irish sailors from the Battle of the River Plate to
the final actions against Japan, and at Irish airmen from the first
bombing raids of the war to the closing days of war. Included are
outstanding personalities such as the Chavasse brothers, who earned
three DSOs, three DSCs and two MiDs, Bala Bredin, Corran Purden,
Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane, Blair Mayne and Roy Farran, the latter
pair highly-decorated SAS officers. There are also Irish generals,
such as Paddy Warren who died while commanding 5th Indian Division
in Burma and Frederick Loftus Tottenham, who commanded 81st (West
African) Division, not to mention giants such as Alexander,
Auchinleck, Montgomery and McCreery. Irish women are not forgotten
in the book which also takes a brief look at the Irish in other
Allied forces, including a most unusual volunteer for the US Navy
whose application to serve had to be approved by President
Roosevelt. He was William Patrick Hitler, a nephew of Germany's
fhrer.
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