A story of extraordinary events of a teenager called up for National Service in World War Two. From being a naAve boy, the services and subsequent events in the Combined Operations branch of the Royal Navy turned him into a hardened and sometimes ruthless survivor. Not only enduring the terrors of a sea journey in an unstable and overloaded barge boat, but being present on D-Day at the invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces. After many tortuous and hair-raising adventures, he is finally shipwrecked. Escaping near death on more than one occasion, he later becomes romantically linked with a beautiful French girl, with baffling results.