Our generation has a lot to thank this one for.
My relatives also served in WWII across the globe , one was a navigator in a Lancaster which was shot down over France and was hidden by the macquis, another was torpedoed off Gibralter and spent 7 hours in the sea before rescue, those were the lucky ones who made it back, two did not.
But although these servicemen and women were the "heroic" ones , we have to also remember those who stayed at home. My father worked incredibly long hours getting the Chain Home radar system operational before the Battle of Britain. My mother spent an equally deprived period as a Wren in Greenock taking radio messages from our vessels out in the Atlantic and could quite possibly have taken the distress call from the Alnmoor. The one that affected her most was a Mayday call from the converted aircraft carrier "HMS Dasher" that went down in the Clyde with almost all hands after an explosion, and a resulting fireball.
