Post by Administrator on May 3, 2016 22:35:28 GMT
Len Cook was still a teenager when the British troop ship he worked on was torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea.
A Londoner, Cook, 92, joined the British Merchant Navy in 1941, after the Royal Navy turned him down because he wasn't 18, he says. "I've often thought afterwards, 'why didn't I lie and say I was 18?' But I didn't even think of it. The merchant navy, they were desperate, they were losing more men than anybody else in those days. They'd take anybody."
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A Londoner, Cook, 92, joined the British Merchant Navy in 1941, after the Royal Navy turned him down because he wasn't 18, he says. "I've often thought afterwards, 'why didn't I lie and say I was 18?' But I didn't even think of it. The merchant navy, they were desperate, they were losing more men than anybody else in those days. They'd take anybody."
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