On Royal Duty: HMS Aurora’s Report of Proceedings 1945
Year: 2020

HMS Aurora was a 6-inch-gun cruiser in the 15th Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean (in which the editor was serving as a Midshipman). After the three-power Yalta Conference in February 1945, Winston Churchill flew to Alexandria where he had a long talk with President Roosevelt on board the US cruiser Quincy. Their discussions mainly concerned the war against Japan and the situation in Italy, in neither of which was Russia then involved. Churchill used the Aurora as his headquarters during his