The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Assault on Attu (5/11-31/1943) - July 27th, 2005

World War Two Magazine | November 2003 | Lee F. Bartoletti

[SAMWolf]

Didn't know they had one named after you, did ya?

[SAMWolf]

Welcome to the Foxhole, ExcursionGuy84.

Tell me about it....I mean, Someone actually thought American Troops didn't need winter clothing ...in ALASKA????

Make's as much sense as European woodland cammo in Iraq in 1991.

[USMCBOMBGUY]

One of my favorites! The other is to simply create a big cloud and go running by screaming!!!

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Why do I get the feeling that this was done even in WW I? Some things never change.

[USMCBOMBGUY]

I need to find a good web host for pictures. I am on my work computer and none of the pictures are displaying for me today. Grrrrrr

[SAMWolf]

Look into Fotki

Fotki

[Soaring Feather]

Whoa Sam, you're talking again!!

[Soaring Feather]

Howdy alfa6!!

Nice looking family you have there. Love the redhead's hair.

[Soaring Feather]

LOL

Yupper, "Telephonists!!

[USMCBOMBGUY]

Thanks, this one may work. I had a storage site before that was promoted as secure/private only to find out later that they were SELLING my photos!

[PAR35]

Welcome. See Sam or Snippy to get on the ping list. Check out old ones via the index.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Checking out things between paying bills and writing up PO's.

[w_over_w]

Checking out things between paying bills and writing up PO's.

Wow, a regular party animal! ;^)

Heee-heeee . . . gotcha big guy!

[alfa6]

1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)

If my memory serves the Meteors were first used to run down these critters.

FYI this V-1 is located on the Putnam County Courthouse grounds in Indiana.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[alfa6]

Hey! you're on old fart like me!! ;-)

Yo ain't gettin me confused with me Pappy now are ya?

Yeah I joined the Loyal Order of F.O.G. a few years back, but I think ya got a few years on me.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Did I ever walk into that one. Nice set up Feather!

We're just two wild and crazy guys. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Hey I'm an old fart and proud of it.

[Samwise]

Have ya ever seen a finer rougues gallery now, eh?

Great-looking bunch you have there.

[Calpernia]

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[Iris7]

When I was a lad, about 1956, I flew in a Lockheed Super Constellation (bet you you guys didn't!! Nyah nyah!! That machine is much prettier and impressive in reality than it is in photos!) from Portland to Anchorage to Attu to Narita (Tokyo). This was in November, about. Attu was a military base.

Attu was cold, foggy, drippy, extremely humid, chilling, and forbidding. I am making a big understatement. Imagine a slow drizzle starting every morning as the slush in the ground starts to melt, only stopping about midnight as the ground freezes again. Highs about 35 degrees, lows about 30 degrees. Visibility varying with the fog. Suicide without proper gear. In straight cotton warm weather uniforms you might last if you piled up at night, fit blankets into your clothes, had a bunch of dry newspapers, and some kind of plastic sheet. Good hat and mittens.

They must have had exposure injuries right away. On the other hand, I was there in November, not in the summer.

I was just a little kid. For sure didn't want to play outside. Was bored, though (ten year old boy) and asked a very old Airman (maybe 20 years old) for a download on what it was like to be here. He kept talking about guys getting lost in the fog and freezing. Caterpillars disappearing into the mud. Maybe he gave me an exaggerated view, heh, heh.