John Arthur Hore's U-boat torpedo stopwatch

The contributor brought in a U-boat torpedo stopwatch. It is produced by Junghans and was used to time torpedo shots. It is unclear exactly how it came into his father-in-law's possession, but he served from 1943 as a communications officer on HMS Talybont on the North Atlantic. He was called u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Their Finest Hour Project Team
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: 2024
Subjects:
British history
European history (excl. British
classical Greek and Roman)
International history
Their Finest Hour
World War Two
Armed Forces
Atlantic
Military
Naval
Navy
Photo
Photograph
Photographs
Photos
Sea
Sea Battle
Ships
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25939282.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/John_Arthur_Hore_s_U-boat_torpedo_stopwatch/25939282
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Summary:The contributor brought in a U-boat torpedo stopwatch. It is produced by Junghans and was used to time torpedo shots. It is unclear exactly how it came into his father-in-law's possession, but he served from 1943 as a communications officer on HMS Talybont on the North Atlantic. He was called up on his 18th birthday. The contributor's father-in-law did not speak much about the war, but mentioned pulling young Germans out of the water from sunken ships. After the war, he read history at University College, Oxford and was a pacer for Roger Bannister. There is not proof, but the family thought the watch was from this originally.

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