Welcome
The Harry Hutson collection is the sum of forty years of research into the conflict between U-Boats and the Merchant Navy during World War II. It is made up of personal survivor reports; interrogation reports; technical details of the ships and the U-Boats; dates; times; places; facts; figures.
A human history
Nature does not decide, just before a World War, to breed special generations of
men and women particularly suited to the task. The people in this history were as real as you and I and they had no more room
in their lives for war, death, destruction, heroism and history-making than you or I would do if circumstances rang the doorbell right now.
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Who was Harry Hutson?
Imagine a story ranging from the icy Icelandic Cod War through the heat of the Cold War in Hong Kong to testing V-Bombers on remote Scottish islands.
A dead rat in the radar, spying on Communist Chinese whispers & Red Soviet rumours and occasionally
jamming BBC Television is the least that may be said. Read more...
A flavour of the content