The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Audie Murphy at Holtzwihr (1/26/1945) - Mar. 31st, 2004

World War II Magazine ^ | May 2002 | Daniel R. Champagne

[SAMWolf]

Hi Radu!

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Mayor. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

I was enjoying all the graphics of Audie Murphy and then cracked up when I got down to the Kerry picture and comment.

Thanks for the links.

[Samwise]

LOL. Goodness, EOD. If there were any more sarcasm in that post, the letters would drip off the monitor.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Once I get on she almost has to cut power to get me off the Net.

[U S Army EOD]

I think the French did launch a minor probe. The problem with the Germans is they had used up a lot of their supplies especially ammunition. The Germans did not go on a wartime economy until sometime in 1942. Of course there are a lot of what ifs in history.

[SAMWolf]

Sorry the Honor Guard didn't show up. Watching the Flag get folded is always a tearful, emotional moment.

[Samwise]

How sad that the honor guard didn't make it. However, I quite sure he got the full reception when he met his friends and fellow patriots at the Gate.

[SAMWolf]

The Germans did not go on a wartime economy until sometime in 1942.

If I remember correctly, Germany was one of the last countries to go to a full war footing. By the time they did it was already too late.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Samwise. You get the crew to clean up the spitwads yet? Snippy says she's expecting the area to be policed up when we get back.

[PhilDragoo]

USS Belle Isle (AG-73) if red X appears above.

Stern of USS Saratoga (CV-3) in background, my father's ship during the war. Photo taken before 1 July 1946.

[U S Army EOD]

I guess that is the classic case of sometimes not everybody gets the word. Most people don't realize it but we started on a wartime economy as early as 1938 when we started building ammo plants and such.

[SAMWolf]

USS Belle Isle, the first of a class of six Liberty ships converted to electronics repair ships, was built at South Portland, Maine, commissioned for the voyage to a conversion yard at Hoboken, N. J. in November 1944, and placed in full commission after conversion in July 1945. The ships of this class were also fitted to serve as distilling and barracks ships. By October 1945 Belle Isle was at Okinawa making repairs for ships of the Pacific Fleet. She moved to Japan in December 1945 where she performed repair duties for the occupation forces.

At the end of March 1946 Belle Isle departed Japan for the West Coast. After a call at San Francisco she moved to San Diego, where she was decommissioned in August 1946 and placed in reserve. In August 1951, while in reserve, she was redesignated a stores issue ship (AKS-21). Belle Isle was stricken from the Navy list in April 1960 and was apparently sunk as a target later that year.

[Soaring Feather]

Thank You.

May he rest in peace.

[SAMWolf]

Hitler kept hoping he could win without "disrupting" the German's daily life.

[Professional Engineer]

Thank you Phil.

[Samwise]

[SAMWolf]

You look like you've been a little overworked. Aren't you getting any help?

[Samwise]

It's OK. Dubya is so busy cleaning up Clinton's messes that I don't mind cleaning up his spitwads.

[Professional Engineer]

Thanks Sam. I knew from the hull number that she was a Liberty ship. I learned that right in this here Foxhole recently.

His discharge was dated 18March 1946. Seems likely to have occurred right after his ship returned to San Diego.