Posted on 11/01/2006 4:29:41 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The Bairoko was an escort carrier.
Check out:
groups.msn.com/USSBAIROKOCVE115
Look for reunions, and the contacts for those reunions.
Correction, not "Torpedo Alley" but "Torpedo Junction" by Homer Hickam, Jr.
or....
Search Ask.com using the keywords:
USS Bairoko reunion
You'll get a whole page of ideas.
thanks for the info. I need to do that. I already feel a bit bad for taking the thread to something personal...it was in poor taste.
You might want to check this out.
http://groups.msn.com/USSBAIROKOCVE115
used AltaVista search.
Roger that.
Its also a confirmation of a time when we had more honorable enemies. I won't deny that the Japanese committed horrific acts and certifiable war crimes. But as a culture they understood honor. Quite unlike our current enemy, that has no honor.
More to the point: The Soviet Navy was an undeniably honorable adversary. We had our differences, and the "cold" war was certainly hotter than it got press about. But even when the CIA recovered remains from the Glomar visit(s) to lost Soviet subs, we gave the lost Soviet sailors a full "Soviet" funeral service at sea.
It wasn't about politics, it was about the bond between sailors, and the honor of respecting that history.
I have no doubt that had the situation been reversed (and it may well have been) that the Soviet sailors would have done the same for us.
I think one moment that encapsulated the 20th century, maybe more than any other moment, was that moment when Gorbachev put his hand on President Reagan's casket in Washington DC. He paid his respects to Ronald Reagan, in a way that showed more class than I've ever seen between any such bitter adversaries before in the history of mankind.
Would that we had such honorable adversaries now.
I know that it is "warming" to think that Russia is no longer an adversary. They are still our adversaries.
Don't EVER refer to a submarine as a "ship" in the presence of a boat sailor. He won't like you and will probably correct you. :-)
Indeed! I caught one off La Paz when I was 14, and the resort (Rancho Las Cruces) kitchen cooked it for the guests' dinner that evening. I've spent 46 years searching for something as good...
Bumping along this great thread for the morning viewers..
Bump!
If I'm not mistaken submarines are or were called "Pig Boats".
My mother's first husband (not my father) was on the USS TROUT. They had been married only four months when he left in January 1944 for the South China Sea. The TROUT re-fueled in Midway, but was never heard from again. It was presumed lost on April 17th.
It was later learned that the SAKITO MARU had been sunk on February 29, 1944. Since the USS TROUT was the only submarine in the area who could have done this, but did not report it, it was assumed that she was lost at that time. It was later learned from Japanese records that at the same time, the destroyer ASASHIMO (presumably an escort in the convoy) had detected a submarine and dropped 19 depth charges. When oil and debris came to the surface, it dropped a final depth charge. 81 lives were lost on the TROUT.
Ping to underwater heroes of WWII
Tommy Cox ping to post 76.
" Was the Wahoo sunk by a Hokie? "
can you tell us non Virginians please ?
awesome fish. Very, very tasty...
You've piqued my interest....How can I get some here in SoCal?
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