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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Zacherof on June 03, 2013, 07:01:08 PM
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Came across my grand fathers journal from when he served on
CV-6(Enterprise) in WW2. Wanted to know if you fine gents would like me to share the interesting things he had written down. He was a BM 2nd class btw.
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Lets hear it.
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Proving difficult to read :furious
can't read cursive to save my life
First entry dated October 31, 1943.
"We left the states for pearl harbor around 10:00 from Bremoth?? Navy yard
about 2130 it go so foggy we had to anchor in midsteam. I had the 2000 to 2400 watch on the forecastle. It was colder than hell. I have 4 men under me. Two old hands and two new boot. We are in condition III. Now I M in watch II. I sure did hate to leave the ____, but I guess somebody has to light the way. Maybe I can get some __ for my back, who knows.
I'll keep it maybe 2-3 post a day for this thread
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Bremerton (WA)... he probably shorthanded it to bremtn or scrunched his letters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Base_Kitsap
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Can't wait to see what is in store! :D
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Bremerton (WA)... he probably shorthanded it to bremtn or scrunched his letters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Base_Kitsap
not sure but it's a logical guess. He's partly the reason I enlisted I. That branch
November 5th, 1943(Exactl 49 years prior to my birth)
Sea is alot calmer and the weather is getting hotter all the time. We are putting into pearl harbour sometime tommorow
Nov. 22, 1943
At sea. Still hot as before. We are still cruising around makim island. We bombed the northern island because there were still a few japs there. We could see piers around noon.
We got word that the japs were sending down submarines. We determined the location of 6 of them. The location of the nearest one about 100 miles away. What we are waiting for is for the jap fleet to come out. If they do, somebody is going to catch hell.
We are going out to refuel to refuel tommorow for we are out of aviation gas. We are also out of tiers for our fighters
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*tires
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*tires
Tyres, surely.
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November 24, 1943
At sea, still hot. We are now operating between Tarawa and makim island now, atleast for a while. We sent up 4 F-6f's and 2 tbf's at 0230 this morning to see if we could intercept the jap bombers when they came down but they didn't show up. At 1300 this noon we went up into D.Q? Because we had about 30-40 bogies on the screen. We sent up all of our fighters to get them but the Lexington and Yorktown fighters tally-hoed before we did. Haven't heard how they come out yet during the last 6 day battle for giller grump? The only damage we suffered was that the independence caught a fish and a few aircraft which wouldn't be a dozen??
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Caught a fish = hit by torpedo?
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Caught a fish = hit by torpedo?
that would be correct sir... :aok
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Got kinda busy last night having a few beers with my buds. Will post some more later this evening :salute
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Very cool Zach