[righttackle44]

This is not my favorite story about an Arizona River.

During World War II, a captured German Navy captain and other sailors were in a prisoner of war camp northeast of downtown Phoenix. He got hold of a map showing they were only a couple of miles from the Gila River. The Gila flows through central Arizona, onward to the Colorado, then into the Gulf of California. Using cast-off stuff and Obermann Super Reasoning and Intelligence, Das Boot guys built a make-shift craft and made a break for it, the Master Race men carrying their boat to the River.

What the Master Race guys didn't know until they got the river, is that the Gila is, was and has been a dry riverbed for decades, ever since the upstream dams were built upstream to conserve water and control floods. You would have thought that such superior moon would have known that before hustling a boat all that way.

[decimon]

Well, map reading is not a naval specialty. ;-)

[colorado tanker]

I've heard that story about the German POW's too. Pretty funny.

I wonder what the heck they thought they were gonna do if they made it to the Gulf of California?