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John Ronald Gower (7 April 1912 – 18 November 2007) was a captain in the Royal Navy who fought in the Second World War. He took part in several naval actions including the evacuation from Dunkirk, the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz and the Normandy landings, where his ship covered the troops landing on Sword beach. In the post-war period he commanded the destroyer HMS Diana when it carried out experiments in waters contaminated by the nuclear fallout of two nuclear explosions in Operation Mosaic, and when it sank the Egyptian frigate Domiat in the Red Sea on 1 November 1956.

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  • John Ronald Gower (7 April 1912 – 18 November 2007) was a captain in the Royal Navy who fought in the Second World War. He took part in several naval actions including the evacuation from Dunkirk, the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz and the Normandy landings, where his ship covered the troops landing on Sword beach. In the post-war period he commanded the destroyer HMS Diana when it carried out experiments in waters contaminated by the nuclear fallout of two nuclear explosions in Operation Mosaic, and when it sank the Egyptian frigate Domiat in the Red Sea on 1 November 1956. (en)
  • John Ronald Gower (Nairobi, 7 aprile 1912 – Aldeburgh, 18 novembre 2007) è stato un ufficiale inglese.Capitano di vascello della Royal Navy, veterano della seconda guerra mondiale dove prese parte a numerose azioni navali tra cui, l'evacuazione delle truppe anglo-francesi da Dunkerque (Operazione Dynamo) l'attacco alla nave da battaglia Tirpitz (Operazione Tungsten) e poi allo sbarco in Normandia, dove la sua unità coprì con il fuoco dei propri cannoni lo sbarco delle truppe sulla spiaggia "Sword". Nel dopoguerra partecipò, al comando del cacciatorpediniere Diana ad un esperimento di navigazione in acque contaminate dal Fallout nucleare di ben due esplosioni nucleari, le . Dopo il pensionamento fu molto attivo nel tentativo di far riconoscere dal governo inglese ai propri uomini, un indenn (it)
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  • Nairobi, Kenya (en)
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