Colin Douglas

Colin Douglas is the author of The Caribbean and the Second World War, published by Lawrence Wishart.

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Battle of the Caribbean

6 June 2024

Connie Mark, who joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Jamaica (the women’s branch of the army) remembered the attacks: ‘If a boat was torpedoed (as happened off St Lucia) when you were expecting oil, then the island would be short of oil … I had a friend who went to England to take her piano finals … and when she was coming back her ship was torpedoed.’

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