Lets get started again, how about a strange story you might have? I'll start with one. I was in a convoy comeing out of trinidad B.W.I., I had a buddy on the ship on our starbord side which was in coffin corner, he was sunning him self and laying on no#2 hatch cover they took a torpedo in hatch #2 and he went sailing on the cover like he was on a magic carpet. I saw him later at the Brooklyn AG Center He was picked up by an escort with a broken leg and a lot of black and blue marks how about that for luck?
Re: Magic Carpet
Posted by Gerald Burr on June 8, 2011, 2:06 pm, in reply to "Magic Carpet"
We ran into a severe storm in the North Atlantic, huge waves that were breaking over the bow of the ship. Two of our Gun Crew whose focsle was mid ship noticed the vent was open and leaking water on the topside of the room, and it was jamed open, they went up on the Deck to try and fix it and a wave swept them into the Ocean. By a Miracle the next wave brought them back on Deck but one landed with his head on the deck and had to be transported to a hospital ship.