Channel Incident

Captain Redford and bosun, Hoskins, began their war even before the official declaration when the Nazi crew of the Alfeldt committed an act of piracy by stealing Redford’s boat, The Sea Bitch, and taking them hostage.

Things didn’t look good for the pair, but this was the catalyst for Redford’s meeting with fearless Polish flyer, Jan Radek. When their stolen Heinkel crashed in the sea, he and his men were rescued by the Nazi sailors in the mistaken assumption that they were saving their own.

I was minding my own business, fighting a rear-guard action at Dunkirk, when Redford and Hoskins came into my life. Redford decided to involve me in his personal war – and what a war it was – running the gauntlet of E-boats to transport Radek and his saboteurs to and from Nazi occupied France.

Luck was bound to run out and, with our boat blown away from under us, we went on the run in occupied territory. Many times I wished I was back at Dunkirk – but then I wouldn’t have met Radek’s daring and beautiful sister, Erica.