The First Lieutenant — J.E. MacDonnell

The “V and W” destroyers fought against fantastic odds …The Stukas found them at ten-thirty...H.M.A.S. Whippet, the destroyer which had fought its way to Tobruk, battled enemy submarines and Stukas, was now fighting for its life.And under the able tutelage of her captain, “Big Bill” Mallett, Sub-lieutenant Bob Randall learnt how to fight the hard way in the toughest war zone until Whippet faced her supreme challenge ...Sub-lieutenant Bob Randall felt a slam of displaced air punch against his face as a bomb exploded on the foc’s’le.Randall couldn’t believe what happened next …