An interesting tidbit on the link below. I just thought I would share it with my fellow Submarineers.

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/HURL/I-401.html

If it’s old news just surf on by….

Thanks for posting this link. Having served in a boat that launched 'small airplanes' from a 'huge hanger' with a '12 ton door', and which boat had made nine successful war patrols against the Japs, it was particularly poignant. In addition, a number of the folks mentioned in the linked articles were officers under whom I served - 'Barney' Sieglaff, for example. And, of course, my 'affiliation' with 'Uncle Charlie'.

Thanks, again.

"Mack the Knife"
CDR USN (Ret)

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Originally posted by 6396992:
Thanks for posting this link.
"Mack the Knife"
CDR USN (Ret)

Sure you bet CDR Mack.

Beg your Pardon CDR, but that would be the Tunny (SS_282) correct?... Did you know anyone who served in the Cusk (SS-348), when they had that Loon blow up on the rails as depicted on the navsource.org page of the Cusk.. YIKES!!!!... By the pictures I can only imagine....WHEW!!!... I'm sure there was plenty of beer and whiskey tossed back after that "evolution".... Once they got back to port I mean... But you never know what was "stowed away" back in the after torpedo room I suppose????... Just simple conjecture. No more no less....

CDR Mack, I sure wish you were going to be on Oahu 21-28 May. I'd be more than happy to buy you a few. To discuss "Trim and Drain", and etc.etc.... I mean the last time I was there in 96 I got to shake hands with Admiral F l u c k e y. With his passing you rate just as high now right????...

It is a shame they had to sink her. It would have made a cool museum boat.

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Originally posted by mpwimmer:
It is a shame they had to sink her. It would have made a cool museum boat.

One could say the same thing about a vast number of warships from BOTH sides of the conflict.

Gneissenau, Nevada, etc etc etc

Heck all the ships they sank during the bomb testing in the 50's. My father was there for some of that.

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Originally posted by ErikBloodaxe:

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Originally posted by mpwimmer:
It is a shame they had to sink her. It would have made a cool museum boat.

One could say the same thing about a vast number of warships from BOTH sides of the conflict.

Gneissenau, Nevada, etc etc etc

Boy I totally Concur.... Well Said...

and mpwimmer, your words, "Heck all the ships they sank during the bomb testing in the 50's. My father was there for some of that."....

I would have loved to have talked to him!!!!

Well he is still alive, however a side effect from that testing (prostate cancer) has left him blind. Sigh. But he has a few fun sea stories. Most would not pass the PC test but that was the navy I wanted to join. He was on the USS Wisconsin at the time. Actually he was tested for submarine duty but he is/was color blind for the color green so he was not allowed to become a Bubblehead.

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Originally posted by mpwimmer:
He has a few fun sea stories. Most would not pass the PC test but that was the navy I wanted to join. He was on the USS Wisconsin at the time.

I bet they are great sea stories!!!... Fortunately I was not in the PC Navy either, but it made a wrong coarse change towards it near the end of my hitch...

Here is a link to me and some of my "Target Fleet" shipmates in August of 06 in Norfolk on the Big Whisky. If you ever get a chance to go to Norfolk, VA Make sure you give her a visit!!!

http://www.ussleahy.com/MiniRe/EDIV2006/EdivRe2.html

Wish you could take your Dad aboard her. They have a great docent crew and we enjoyed all of them very much. One was even a retired Navy Nurse CDR type.

Hey MP, when I’m at the Royal Hawaiian next month, late on the afternoon of the 21st, I’ll hoist a “pink beer” to you and all my other fellow Submarineers.