The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle for Torpedo Junction (1942) - May 20th, 2003

The Island Breeze ^ | December 2000 | Kevin Duffus

[Soaring Feather]

How about some Pogo?
"We have met the enemy and he is us"



Yup, simplier huh?

[Soaring Feather]

Pro's Nest !!!! Yeah!!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Yes, too early.

I was going to say in my best Scarlett O'Hara voice. I just can't think about that now, but tomorrow is another day!

[SAMWolf]

Yep, easier but a lot deeper too.

[Soaring Feather]

I was going to say in my best Scarlett O'Hara voice. I just can't think about that now, but tomorrow is another day!
And as Rhett Butler said, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" LOL

[snippy_about_it]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[HiJinx]

Now, waid-a-minnit...!

Isn't a girl allowed to take a day off now and then?

C'mon, let's give her a little slack...!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL!

((hugs!))

[HiJinx]

Quiet today...

I'm going to go look something up...I seem to remember something about the CAP and the Eastern Seaboard...

[HiJinx]

I seem to remember Civil Air Patrol efforts to counter the U-Boat threat along the Eastern Seaboard...to wit:
(Source: http://history.nhq.cap.gov/from_the_cap_historical_research.htm)

From the CAP Historical Research Department

LTC Allan F. Pogorzelski, CAP and LTC Axel I. Ostling, CAP

Additional research indicates the following source. The book is "Jeeps in the Sky" (the story of the light Plane) written by Lt Col Andrew Ten Eyck with a forward by Colonel Robert L. Scott, Jr. for AFIPR, Headquarters Army Air Forces. The copyright is 1946 by Army Air Forces Aid Society, First Printing in the U.S.A. by the Tenny Press.

Page 27....

" Although the victory against the submarine was a joint operation of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and the CAP, it is a fact that the U-boats disappeared in direct proportion to the spread of CAP operations. The Berlin radio commenting on the dwindling effectiveness of its underseas campaign, complained of the unexpected appearance of the fleets of civilian aircraft as the main hazard which forces the U-boats out of our coastal waters. "

I would submit this information written in 1945-46 as direct source information source.

The picture is from the CAP Carroll Composite Sqdn Web Site.

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Finally able to read it all, lunchtime consumption. lol.

I'm struck by the fact that the country didn't seem to panic. I would think if the ships off the coast were being sunk word of mouth alone would travel through the country that the Germans were attacking and military action would have come sooner than it did.

What am I missing?

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These civilians, with no formal military training, would leave their homes and families in the morning, go to fight in war, and return home for supper. They were the only men to do this since the revolutionary war.

American spirit bump.

Feels like Casablanca around here today.:)

[HiJinx]

Don't it, though!

Are you guys getting any rain, today? We're overcast and cool, but won't get any rain at all until July...

[snippy_about_it]

Rain. Yes again and humid although only 70 it seems hotter because of the humidity, something you Arizona folk don't worry about. lol.

Around here April showers bring May showers and they bring June showers until July when it is just hot and humid!

Few months of that and then it's back to snow, ice and cold.

Am I complaining? :)

[SAMWolf]

Yep I remember that story. DIdin't hey actually get credit for sinking one U-boat?

[SAMWolf]

Different times than today.

The press didn't harp on it nor cover it live in 24 hours a day for one.

[SAMWolf]

Lockheed Hudson Over U-Boat, 1942

[HiJinx]

CAP pilots like Taylor are among today’s “Flying Minutemen” and women, serving much like their prede­cessors during WWII. In those days, CAP pilots flew more than 500,000 hours, logging 24 million miles in their own planes. They lost 64 aviators and 90 aircraft flying often dangerous mis­sions around the country and offshore. They spotted 173 enemy submarines, attacked 57, hit 10 and sank two.

Source: VFW Magazine, Jan 2003, Vol 90, No.5, found on CAP Web Site at: http://www.nhwgcap.org/wing_pages/vfw_article/vfw_article.htm

[HiJinx]

Okay, your picture is better than mine...

[Soaring Feather]

Ohhhh, okay JINX, she can have the day off!

Okay with me!!LOL