wrote to acknowledge receipt of Tuck's account: ‘What you haven’t said in your history (but, thank goodness, it sticks out a mile) is your tremendous triumph over wrongheaded experts, red tape, neglect and almost impossible conditions. The tremendous value of your contribution and its great significance in the total British effort in the Japanese war – that, I hope, will be recognised in the G.C.C.S. histories (it certainly will in the Naval history) now being written.’Tuck Papers 2/9, letter from Birch to Tuck.
