KINTYRE AT WAR CD - SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Section 2) Introductions - Why War ?

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Map of WWII Installations etc. Around Kintyre
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WWII Miscellany of Who's What etc (9) Prelude to War (25) A State of War (30) Who Fought
Who (34) What Ifs (37)

Section 3) 1939
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New Laws (47) The Dogfight (53) Home and Away at War (54) The 'Duchesses' at War (57)
Away From The Fleet (58) Weather Reports (60) Spies on The Move (67) Carradale's U-Boat
(67) Other Spies (71) Mines and Mines (72) First Campbeltown Man Killed (75)

Section 4) 1940
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Internment and 'The Cafés' (80) Geneva Convention (82) Rationing (83) Campbeltown (89)
'U-33' and H.M.S. 'Gleaner' (90) The Enigma Machine (94) Paper Enigma Machine (96) Come
Viz Me to Ze Casbah (99) Best Face Forward (100) Daylight Saving Time (102) 'Finished With
Engines' (104) War on The Buses (105) The 'Zwarte Zee (III)' (108) Clyde Minefield (108)
The 'Maille Breze' (109) H.M.S. 'Nimrod' (109) The Home Guard (112) Dunkirk (113)
Churchill's Famous Speech (117) Taking Leave of Dunkirk (117) Dunkirk Roll of Honour (119)
Glossary of Army Terms (121) Clyde Rescue Tugs (122) U-Boat Positioning Grid System (122)
First Anzac Convoy (126) The 'Arandora Star' and Britain's Gold (126) Interned (127) The
Tugs and The Mines (128) The 'Davaar' and The 'Dalriada' (128) More Sinkings (129) The
'Zwarte Zee' and Queen Wilhelmina's Birthday (132) Operation Quickforce (132) Inveraray
(136) The Rescue Tug Base (140) Neil Mitchell and The 'Davaar' (142) The Condors (145)
First Campbeltown Air Attack (146) War at The West Loch (150) Islay's Air War (152) Dickie's
of Tarbert (153) Ardrishaig Training Base (155) Road Blocks and Bombing Ranges (156) The
Army (160)

Section 5) 1941
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The Condors (162) The 'Englishman' (166) The Donegal Air Corridor (169) Irish Neutrality in
WWII (169) Campbeltown's Second and Final Direct Attack (172) Gunther Prien and 'U-47'
(176) Women at War (178) 'Shemara' (181) The French Connection (182) Coastal Command
(183) All About Convoys (185) H.M.S. 'Campbeltown' and Convoy OB318 (188) The
'Bismark' (191) Clothes Rationing (194) From Strabane to Machrihanish (197) From The
Fuhrer's Speech (199) Hero's Demise (201) Atlantic Charter (202) Arran's War (202) The
Belgian Count and The Radium Mystery (204) The 'Bustler' Class Tugs (206) Campbeltown
Loch's Anti-Submarine Boom (208) Kitchen Gear (209) The Puffers (210) America's
Declaration of War on Japan (211) Hitler's Declaration of War on America (212)

Section 6) 1942
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Cefoil (225) 'Adept' Aground (228) H.M.S. 'Campbeltown' and Operation Chariot – St.
Nazaire (228) Campbeltown Kate (235) Carradale's 'Medea' (236) Out at The Base (237) The
'Laconia' (240) The 'Queen Mary' and The 'Curaçao' (241) The Southend Spy (243)

Section 7) 1943
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H.M.S. 'Vandal' (249) Boys Will Be Boys (252) The 'Dasher' (254) 'Tirpitz' (254) Lili Marlene
(256) The Loss of The 'Untamed' (258) Sylvia Scarlet (260) Quebec Conference (261) The
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Troop Tenders (262) Water, Water, Everywhere (263) The 'Moncouso' and The Bombing
Range (263) On The Tugs (264) POW's Repatriated (264) Skipness Bombing Range and The
'Betty' (265) An English Daffodil (266) Accidental Death (267) The 'Growler' (267)

Section 8) 1944
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The 'Growler' and The 'Coubert' (271) H.M.S. 'Graph'/'U-570' (271) Big Guns (273) Skipness
Bombing Range (274) Operation Fortitude – Thorne's War (275) The Mulberry Harbours
(275) The July Plot (278) August Escapes (279) PLUTO (279) Matuschka's First Patrol (281)
Wiring In (285) Fessenden (286) The 'Queens' (289) Big Bang (290)

Section 9) 1945
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Matuschka's 'U-482' and The 'Englishman' (294) A Brief History of Prussia (305) Matuschka
(305) 'U-482' Crew List (307) New Minefields Laid Between Ireland and Islay (309) H.M.S.
'Sealion' (310) Lost off Gigha (310) Final German Minelaying in The Clyde (311) Germany
Told of Hitler's Death (312) GERMAN SURRENDER DOCUMENTS (314) The End of The U-
Boats (325) Victory (326) JAPANESE SURRENDER DOCUMENTS (328) The 'Aarla' (336) H.M.S.
'Mull of Kintyre' (337) Operation Deadlight (338) Oops ! (339)

Section 10) 1946

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The VW at War (341) 'Jairminny Calling' (342) 'Shemara' (342) Mothballed (345) The 'Byron
Darnton' (345) The End of Graf von Matuschka's 'Prinz' (346) Campbeltown's Roll of Honour
(347) Official VE-Day June 8, 1946 Victory Celebrations Programme (350) Stalin's Butler
Eugene Yoist (362) Other Tales or Tail Pieces (362) Old Meets New (365) The Eventually Not
So Lucky 'Fessenden' (367) 'For The Fallen' (369)

Section 11) Glossaries

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Wartime Heritage Trails (370) Kintyre Wartime Aircraft Crashes (374) Glossary of WWII German Military Terms
(378) Glossary of U-Boat Terms (390) Glossary of U-Boat Abbreviations (421) WWII Miscellany of Who's What
etc. (432) Acknowledgements (438) A Note on Picture and Other Credits (438) Copyright Notes (439) Useful
References (440) Kintyre Antiquarians and Natural History Society (440)