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Re: USS Bluefish SS-222 WWII
Posted by:
Jenny Anderson
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Date: May 29, 2010 02:54PM
THis story brings to mind a wonderful afternoon sometime around xmas 1987. We were visiting Mobile and we took a tour of a destroyer (don't remember name) and the USS Drum. There was a tour guide, but he rapidly gave way to Dad, who described what happened in parts of the boat (My oldest daughter vividly remembers the description hammocks over the torpedos in the aft part of the boat). Makes sense, but I'd never thought about it. He went on to delineate the differences between the Drum and the Bluefish (I guess layout officer quarters were mirror images on the two boats. He described life on the boat. I remember how small it was and how packed it must have been with crew. Until the Mobile trip,my dad had never talked about the war to me or my siblings. He had talked about Perth, Fremantle, and taking the train across Australia after the war ended. The entire tour listened to my dad. He later went into some detail about picking up a Japanese pilot and how scary that was. My daughter wrote it down and I will share it here when I find her little "family history."
At the end of his life, he said he had contacted his captain and the two had discussed the sinking of a Japanese ship somewhere south near the end of the war. Dad had felt the sinking was unnecessary. The captain agreed over 50 years after the war. He must have felt it necessary at the time.
At the end of his life, he said he had contacted his captain and the two had discussed the sinking of a Japanese ship somewhere south near the end of the war. Dad had felt the sinking was unnecessary. The captain agreed over 50 years after the war. He must have felt it necessary at the time.