ryanglavin
05-23-10, 08:09 AM
One day while exploring the attic in your Grandfathers house in Argentina, you find a dust covered diary, who knows what it is?
Erich Drost, War diary.
July 24th, 1943
Left Lorient on July 21st, 1943. Donitz was giving me the hint that we would pull
into port at Penang. I had a feeling it was the last time I was going to see
beautiful Europe. I cried.
August 4th, 1943
Had a run-in with destroyer in grid squares FE. No serious damage, but morale
was shaken; we were under for 20 hours.
August 5th, 1943
To bring up our spirits, we found a Granville type Freighter in the same area
as the destroyer was. Clear weather, single stern torpedo under the engine
room. Broke its back.
August 6th, 1943
We finally get the message from Donitz that tells us to go to Penang.
That impending feeling is there again... I might as well write down that I'll
never see my family in Germany again.
Your Grandfather calls you down the stairs for Lunch. You take a sticky note
and use it as a bookmark in the diary. You wonder if your grandfather has any
idea what it is.
Erich Drost, War diary.
July 24th, 1943
Left Lorient on July 21st, 1943. Donitz was giving me the hint that we would pull
into port at Penang. I had a feeling it was the last time I was going to see
beautiful Europe. I cried.
August 4th, 1943
Had a run-in with destroyer in grid squares FE. No serious damage, but morale
was shaken; we were under for 20 hours.
August 5th, 1943
To bring up our spirits, we found a Granville type Freighter in the same area
as the destroyer was. Clear weather, single stern torpedo under the engine
room. Broke its back.
August 6th, 1943
We finally get the message from Donitz that tells us to go to Penang.
That impending feeling is there again... I might as well write down that I'll
never see my family in Germany again.
Your Grandfather calls you down the stairs for Lunch. You take a sticky note
and use it as a bookmark in the diary. You wonder if your grandfather has any
idea what it is.