Military history of Barbados

By 1945 Barrow had risen to the rank of flying officer and was appointed as personal navigator to the Commander in Chief of the British Zone of occupied Germany.

On 11 September 1942 German submarine U-514 was patrolling the waters of Barbados where it torpedoed the Canadian steam merchant ship Cornwallis off the coastline of the capital city.

[2] The prize winning Barbadian novelist Austin Clarke writes in detail surrounding this attack in his novels "Pig Tails'n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir" and Giller Prize-winning The Polished Hoe.

These forces often act in concert to maintain law and order in the country as well as to root out illegal activity and other threats.

The Barbados Air Wing consists of one Cessna 402 aircraft based at Grantley Adams International Airport.