SUBSIM Regional Meets

[Jeff-Groves]

You know I'm all for this.


Chicago has a type IX and Cleveland has the USS Cod.
Toledo has some cool stuff also like the Col. James M. Schoonmaker .
Do Ohio at the right time and you can attend the D-Day landing recreation also!

[GoldenRivet]

D-day event sounds cool. I've been aboard the cod but never U-505

[Jeff-Groves]

Did the USS Cod and U-505 along with boarding the Schoonmaker during resortation. (We were most promptly escorted off! )
D-Day is on my bucket list.

http://www.ddayohio.us/

[Onkel Neal]

As soon as we get a couple pages of feedback on this, I will set up the subforum

[GoldenRivet]

Great!

[Betonov]

While we're at it, someone should regionalise Europe and Canada.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Betonov

While we're at it, someone should regionalise Europe and Canada.

Better be quick then because the UK may not be in Europe for much longer

The UK not being all that large sizewise in relation to other countries I'd suggest an England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland structure/regional split or alternatively simply leaving the whole of the UK as a single region.

Finding members who would be willing to coordinate is obviously key.

[Betonov]

I've been regionalising Europe, but is that even needed ??
Europe is not that big and simply saying ''how about a subsim meet in Amsterdam'' and anyone that can fly/arrive would come be it from London or Warsaw.

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

You know I'm all for this.


Chicago has a type IX and Cleveland has the USS Cod.
Toledo has some cool stuff also like the Col. James M. Schoonmaker .
Do Ohio at the right time and you can attend the D-Day landing recreation also!

Don't forget the Airforce Museum in Dayton along with the Dayton Air show. And a day trip to Fort Knox for the General Patton Museum. I know they're not submarine related, but still military.

By the way, I'm all for this also.

Don't forget about us canucks! lol

[CTU_Clay]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by hightower2

Don't forget about us canucks! lol

Betanov:While we're at it, someone should regionalise Europe and Canada

hightower2! Really! And could Minnesota please be removed from the 'Midwest Meet' group and attached to Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Hockey, Hamm's and Moosehead will be discussed and served! We'll meet at the port city of Duluth...or Toronto! British Columbia can be attached to the Pacific group of course! Quebec, Newfoundland an Labrador can be with Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. After all it is an international forum; U boats did attack in the St Lawrence river and the Canadian Navy did almost half the escort work in the Atlantic." "The progression Canada made from 1939 to 1945 is astonishing, going from the limited amount of warships they had to becoming the third largest navy in the world is an achievement in itself, not to mention the role they played in informing the USN in intelligence and the increase in responsibility. Their primary role in protecting merchant ships from North America to Britain was successful. Throughout the war Canada had made 25,343 successful escort voyages delivering 164,783,921 tons of cargo. By the end of the war, German documents state that the Royal Canadian Navy was responsible for the loss of 52 submarines in the Atlantic. In return 59 Canadian merchant ships, and 24 warships were sunk during the battle of the Atlantic.“Canadians solved the problem of the Atlantic convoys” – British Admiral Sir Percy Noble"

[Chad]

I have spoken with my father recently about attending another meet sometime. Regardless of where it is located, we may stretch beyond the plains of the Midwest.

[GoldenRivet]

thats another good thing about the regional concept. Events would be posted for all to see, so if a region is hosting an event and you do not live near the region, but are able to attend, there is no reason you couldnt.

If the southeast region is having an event at mobile alabama, and you live in the mid america region and feel like you could make it... by all means attend it.

[Aktungbby]

http://silversidesmuseum.org/ I vote for a combined mid-America /Canadian meet at Muskegon Michigan! at the USS Silversides Museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Silversides_(SS-236)