The British Pacific Fleet in World War II

About the Book

A blow-by-blow eye-witness account of the British Pacific Fleet’s participation in the invasion of Okinawa and the attacks on the Japanese homeland.

About the Author

Author Waite Brooks joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942 at age 17. As a member of the first group of cadets to enter the re-established Royal Canadian Naval College, HMCS Royal Roads, in Victoria, he graduated from naval college in the summer of 1944. He was one of a group of Canadian midshipmen sent to the United Kingdom to serve in the Royal Navy. He was appointed to the battleship, HMS King George V, and in her, he sailed for the Pacific where she became the flagship of the British Pacific Fleet. As a member of the ship’s air defence team, his action station was on an open platform just abaft the bridge from where all of the fleet, and any aerial activity over the fleet was visible. He recorded it all in his journal – a full and accurate account of the aerial warfare; eyewitness account of the British Pacific Fleet’s actions in the Pacific, reliving the events without ‘after the event’ editing.