swathdiver
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From: Boynton Beach,
FL, USA
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My grandfather was a bombardier on B-24s in Europe and then a military lawyer, passed in '88.
A friend of my grandfather's was an Italian who first fought for Mussolini, then Hitler, then Patton as a tanker!
My great uncle was the plankowner of the USS Hale DD-642, passed in '89. Hale shot down 5 enemy planes, sank a sub, and bombarded countless enemy positions on land.
My old boss was with the 101st and 82nd Airborne. Parachuted into Belgium, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He remembers fighting along side Pershings late in the war and doing combat against Tiger tanks. Still remembers the sound of the vaunted 88!
Neighbor down the street when I was a kid was in the Army Air Corps. He came ashore shortly after the first waves at Iwo Jima to get the airfield ready to land B-29s returning from Japan that couldn't make it back to their home base. He was badly wounded in the fighting and was partially disabled. He passed in 1983.
One of my mentors and officers in the Sea Cadets was a sailor on a DE out of Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, my hometown. He told a story that some fishermen pulled alongside their ship in port one morning and told them what happened the night before. They were offshore drift fishing at night when a u-boat surfaced underneath them and their whole boat was lifted out of the water on the u-boats rear deck. Soon as the skipper popped the hatch and saw them he ordered a crash dive and they barely survived swamping in the swirling water as the germans headed for the safety of the depths.
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James -
You do have spare boards, don't you?
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