This is one of my favorites . Always a converstion piece for Memorial Day or Veterans day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLQUzWMQUk
I’ve heard there are still a few German U Boats out there who don’t know the war is over.
Actually, I am sorry to report to you that most of that generation has passed on. I went to the 50 year reunion back in the early Ninties, most of the contact numbers I recieved then are no longer listed. But that was a good laugh, hope you enjoyed the video.
my Dad is very involved with the Manitowoc Maritime Museum (WI) which has an actual US WWII sub on site - with tours and the like. very cool. I will forward this video to him - he’ll get a kick out of it.
Wow, you just made the hairs on the back of my head stand up, thats where I went for the Reunion. I met some awsome people there.
When I was a kid I read every WWII submarine book I could get my hands on (several by Edward Beach). Then in San Fran years ago I toured a WWII sub they had on display there and they gave you a headset where you got a narative as you self-toured thru the sub. The narator was Edward Beach, pretty cool.
Somewhere in Michigan there is a sub on display on Lake Michigan that occasionally still goes out and dives. Boy scout troops and the like get to stay overnight on it. I toured that one while on the Western Shoreline week long bike ride.
Those things were SERIOUSLY hard to crawl around in - very cramped quarters.
When I was a kid I read every WWII submarine book I could get my hands on (several by Edward Beach). Then in San Fran years ago I toured a WWII sub they had on display there and they gave you a headset where you got a narative as you self-toured thru the sub. The narator was Edward Beach, pretty cool.
Somewhere in Michigan there is a sub on display on Lake Michigan that occasionally still goes out and dives. Boy scout troops and the like get to stay overnight on it. I toured that one while on the Western Shoreline week long bike ride.
Those things were SERIOUSLY hard to crawl around in - very cramped quarters.
That would be USS Silversides…as in the Video.
Man… now I want cake!
That would be USS Silversides…as in the Video.
I was wondering how he was actually cooking on the sub. Amazing that they can keep it seaworthy.
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I thought this link would be along the lines of this: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/24/army.aged.cake/index.html .