[SCDogPapa]

The conditions those boats endured up there are simply indescribable. It was God awful. Cold. Dreary. Foggy. Ice glaze. The periscopes froze. The decks and lifelines were caked with ice. Blizzards. You could never get a navigational fix.

Sounds like a good place to be from.

A LONG way from.

Mornin' Sam

[texas booster]

Great thread. I'll show it to my kids when they complain about winter here.

My father ended up stationed in Attu (I think). He was training in England for D-Day, when his ear drums popped during a live fire exercise. Evacuated back to the States for surgery, he was assigned to the Aleutians as punishment for not making the D-Day landings.

He always spoke with sorrow of not making the D-Day landings - Juno Beach, I think - even though most of his company was KIA or wounded. It was a different time in our country, with different attitudes of camaraderie.

For some reason, he had no desire to see Alaska again, even though us kids begged him for a trip there. I understand now.

[SAMWolf]

Morning SCDogPapa.

You have to figure they spent more time just trying to keep from freezing than they did anything else.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning SCDogPapa.