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Waite Brooks
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 ...view moreAuthor 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.view less