Alan Bunce
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257 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
Alan Bunce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was an eight-inch shell that hit the cruiser.
It struck the ship's side a yard above the waterline, and it penetrated the main deck as it burst, flinging red-hot fragments of steel all around it.
And with the fragments came the flame of explosion.
The X-gun turret bore the brunt.
The officer at the shell ring and the officer at the ammunition hoist killed by the jagged shield.
One minute they were alive and the next they were dead.
One moment they were men and then the shell burst right in their midst and they were nothing.
Nothing.
The petty officer in charge of the lobby and the others survived them only by a few seconds.
They died by fire, but it was a quick death.
Yes?
Pretty badly, apparently, sir.
Very good, Jerningham.
Thank you.
One turret was out, but the A and B turrets were firing away beautifully, all four guns in white-hot action.
At that moment, a shell was fired from HMS Artemis, which changed the face of the war, altered the whole history of the world.
Men and women in Nigeria or Czechoslovakia would feel the impact of that shell upon their lives.
headhunting cannibals in Papua, Siberian nomads seeking a scant living on the frozen tundra of Asia, toddling babies in the cornfields of Iowa, and their children's children would all in years to come owe something to that shell.
Of the four shells fired in that salvo, three of them missed.
The fourth, the shell from the left-hand gun and turret A, hit.
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