Under Orders
By Philip McCutchan
Portsmouth, 1942. War has engulfed the world, and the Allied losses are mounting.
After time spent on dangerous North Atlantic convoy duties, Donald Cameron is recruited to the HMS Castle Bay, a vessel with a secret mission.
Word has reached the Special Operations Executive that the Germans are building something on the shores of Vest Hammerfjord. The site is inaccessible to aircraft, and it is up the Navy to transport a trained demolition team to seek out and destroy whatever the enemy is hiding.
But they must get past the German defences, which include the Battle-cruiser Scharnhurst, with nine 11-inch guns, and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hiffer, with eight 8-inch guns.
The orders are clear: complete the mission at any cost. They are expendable…
