[j.havenfarm]

Indeed. These sad sacks of today would have lost us the war. I got a free subscription to Apple TV and yesterday watched Greyhound with Tom Hanks about North Atlantic troop and materiel convoys during the war. Extremely powerful. I’ll “formally” post it on Pearly HArbor Day, but here’s my son’s Eagle Scout project video bio of my dear friend Lou Conter, aged 100, one of two remaining survivors is the USS Arizona, and South Pacific pilot
USS Arizona Survivor Lou Conter — Pearl Harbor & Pacific War Video Memoir: Witness to Infamy

[lapsus calami]

 

 

watched Greyhound with Tom Hanks about North Atlantic troop and materiel convoys during the war.

 

I knew people who did that route. It was terrible duty. The movie does a great job at portraying the seas, the weather conditions, the level of alertness and stress they had to work in. The captain praying alone in the movie drives home the concern of death always lurking nearby.

 

This scene hits me in the heart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCtT-OijtNk - this is exactly how it was done.