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Re: HMS Swiftsure in Japan
Posted by: Mike Oakley ()
Date: March 14, 2019 02:31PM

My father, Reg Oakley, was a sub-lieutenant on HMS Swiftsure when she went to Nagasaki. He died aged 52 of cancer of just about everything. I have no proof that his cancer was connected to them walking around Nagasaki in only their tropical whites but it seems likely. I have a tankard, chopsticks and a Kimono that I guess were souvenirs. I no longer have any photographs but believe that he was a gunnery officer who talked little about his experiences but once he did say he had been shooting at Kamakasi Pilots. I think also he had a lot to do with entertainments. I too wish I knew more. I was 3 in 1945.

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Re: HMS Swiftsure in Japan Derek Hammond 03/14/2011 07:50PM
Re: HMS Swiftsure in Japan Kenneth Baker 08/15/2015 09:27AM
Re: HMS Swiftsure in Japan Mike Oakley 03/14/2019 02:31PM
Re: HMS Swiftsure in Japan Linda Cutforth 08/03/2019 04:21AM
Re: HMS Swiftsure in Japan Graham gamage 12/29/2020 08:51PM


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