Dog Boats at War: Royal Navy D Class Mtbs And Mgbs 1939-1945

by Lord Lewin (Foreword), Lord Lewin (Foreword), Leonard C Reynolds OBE (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $23.53

  Built of plywood and measuring 115 feet long, powered by four supercharged petrol engines and armed to the teeth with heavy weapons, the 'D' Class Motor Gun Boats (MGBs) and Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) were better known as Dog Boats and played havoc with enemy shipping in home and foreign waters. During three years of war they engaged the enemy on more than 350 occasions, sinking and damaging many ships. Dog Boats at War is the authoritative account of operations by the Royal Navy's 'D' Class MGBs and MTBs in the Second World War in Home, Mediterranean and Norwegian waters. As well as drawing on official records - both British and German - the author has contacted several hundred Dog Boat veterans whose eyewitness accounts add drama to the unfolding story.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $11.71

  Originally published in 1996 and now available in paperback, a history of Blenheim squadron No.105 which examines their low-level, daylight bombing operations from bases in Norfolk and Malta, between 1940 and 1941.