OT:Another Sub sailor dies

TDK1044 · 10-29-07, 12:51 PM

Nice post. Thank you.

AVGWarhawk · 10-29-07, 01:00 PM

Hey Shoot, seems like your visit to the Batfish for that month over the summer really left an impression on you! Sorry to hear another goes on enternal patrol but his story was left with you. It is a special treat to get information from those that lived it! It is cooler yet when things that we know and do now are a direct result of what happend in WW2. Here is a perfect example. The best thing you can do is remember him like you did today. I hope next summer you get a chance to spend a month again on the Batfish. It is guys like you that keep the Batfish and her stories alive and what work you can do in that month on the Batfish goes a long way.

Salute!

shoot-kill-win · 10-29-07, 01:46 PM

Thanks AVG, I am trying to do all I can for the Batfish and the Sub sailors, I actually spent about two months and about 180 hours on the Batfish. At thanksgiving I will be going back down there, to visit my grandparents, and I will be going up there and working. I am hoping to go to Oklahoma state university so I can work at the Batfish during my breaks.

I want to talk to all the WWII sub sailors and record the stories in order to honor all of them. If anyone else wants to do the same it would be wonderful.
At Ken Burn's "The War" website it has a vetran interview book, with some suggestions on how to do it.
http://http://www.pbs.org/thewar/vet_hist_project.htm

10-29-07, 01:00 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,303 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Hey Shoot, seems like your visit to the Batfish for that month over the summer really left an impression on you! Sorry to hear another goes on enternal patrol but his story was left with you. It is a special treat to get information from those that lived it! It is cooler yet when things that we know and do now are a direct result of what happend in WW2. Here is a perfect example. The best thing you can do is remember him like you did today. I hope next summer you get a chance to spend a month again on the Batfish. It is guys like you that keep the Batfish and her stories alive and what work you can do in that month on the Batfish goes a long way. Salute! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

10-29-07, 01:46 PM	#3
shoot-kill-win Medic Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 164 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Thanks AVG, I am trying to do all I can for the Batfish and the Sub sailors, I actually spent about two months and about 180 hours on the Batfish. At thanksgiving I will be going back down there, to visit my grandparents, and I will be going up there and working. I am hoping to go to Oklahoma state university so I can work at the Batfish during my breaks. I want to talk to all the WWII sub sailors and record the stories in order to honor all of them. If anyone else wants to do the same it would be wonderful. At Ken Burn's "The War" website it has a vetran interview book, with some suggestions on how to do it. http://http://www.pbs.org/thewar/vet_hist_project.htm __________________ U.S.S. Batfish "The champion Submarine-killing sub of WWII" Official tonnage: 12,332 Sank 3 subs in 3 days

10-29-07, 12:51 PM	#1
TDK1044 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 2,674 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Nice post. Thank you.