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AMPHIBIOUS BOMBARDMENT ASSOCIATION
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Edited By Lieutenant Colonel Mike Sharp MBE RA
Contents
ABA President’s Foreword 2 ABA Chairman’s Introduction 2 Combined Operations - The Early Days 3 John Muir’s Service in the Royal Navy 4 One of the Originals 9 The Combined Operations Units 11 Travels with FO4 Maxwell Davidson’s War 15 Naval Gunfire Support in the Korean War 17 The Guinea-pig Subaltern 19 Malta in the 1960s 21 Falklands 1982 - Op TORNADO 22 Naval Gunfire Support on Op CORPORATE 26 Falkland Islands 1982 (NGFO 2) 27 Southern Thule - The last operation of 1982 30 HMS Plymouth at War 32 Falklands 1982 - Op SUTTON 35
Gulf War - Op GRANBY: A 148 Bty Perspective 38 148 Bty in Op TELIC 1 - A BC’s Recollection 40 Op TELIC: Al-Faw to Abu-Kasib 42 NGLO Report - Al Faw Peninsula 43 148 Bty - Op HERRICK 5 44 CBO - The Early Days 45 Thinking Soldiers 46 The Eyes of the Fleet’s Guns 47 HMS M.33 50 A Naval Officers Recollection of St Albans Head 51 881 Amphibious Observation Bty RA (TA) 52 Memories of No.5 COBU 53 Naval Bombardment and Air Observation 54 Soldier - Sailor: The life and Times of an RO2 55 BLO to NGLO - The first 60 years 58 FIFLA 59
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