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Re: Another DAS BOOT
Posted by:
JAYRSEE
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Date: December 01, 2001 05:44PM
<HTML>Hi again, Woody,
I am a Canadian, born in Toronto, but since my Dad was a railroader, we lived in several places, while I was growing up, including northern Ontario small towns, Ottawa, Montreal. We also lived in a little town called Groveton, NH, where I remember swearing alliegance to the Stars& Strips every morning, while attending elementary school.
I joined the Canadian Navy in Ottawa, when I was eighteen. I had learned telegraphy while growing up, and the day I turned eighteen, I was hired by Canadian National Railways as a train order operator. I worked a few months then joined up as Telegraphist (S.O).
Of the thirty u-boats sunk by Canadian Naval vessels, my first ship, a frigate, HMCS Swansea, in company with other ships of the RCN and the RN, was involved in the demise of four: U-845-March 10/44, U-448-April 14/44, U-311-April 22/44 and U-247-Sept. 1/44. The first three were sunk in the Atlantic and the lasst off Wolf's Rock, near Land's End, England. In fact all of the real action I saw was while assigned as a Huff Duff Operator on Swansea , Atlantic, around the British Isles, Bay of Biscay and between England and Gibraltar. We were doing A/S sweeps between Land's End, England and the Cherbourg Peninsula from June 6th on for a number of weeks following "D"-Day, then back into the Bay of Biscay set upon keeping Gerry's U-boats from entering the English Channel, in an attempt to disrupt the flow of Allied traffic between the South of England and the Normandy Beach Head.
After my ten months on Swansea and twenty eight day's leave, I joined HMCS Winnipeg, an Algerine Mine Sweeper, which was used as an escort vessel on the Triangle Run, Halifax, Boston, New York. We were tied up in Boston on VE-Day.
After Germany capitulated in the spring of 1945, most Canadian warships were getting ready to head for the Pacific, but then you know what happened in early August of that year.
Here's another bit of trivia, which you may or may not be aware of. At the outset of WWII the Canadian Navy consisted of a few River Class Destroyers and Bangor Minesweepers and about 5,000 personnel. At the end of the war the Canadian Navy was the third largest, in terms of the number of vessels, of the Allied forces in the world, 100,000 strong.
What's your main claim to fame?
Cheers,
J.R.C.</HTML>
I am a Canadian, born in Toronto, but since my Dad was a railroader, we lived in several places, while I was growing up, including northern Ontario small towns, Ottawa, Montreal. We also lived in a little town called Groveton, NH, where I remember swearing alliegance to the Stars& Strips every morning, while attending elementary school.
I joined the Canadian Navy in Ottawa, when I was eighteen. I had learned telegraphy while growing up, and the day I turned eighteen, I was hired by Canadian National Railways as a train order operator. I worked a few months then joined up as Telegraphist (S.O).
Of the thirty u-boats sunk by Canadian Naval vessels, my first ship, a frigate, HMCS Swansea, in company with other ships of the RCN and the RN, was involved in the demise of four: U-845-March 10/44, U-448-April 14/44, U-311-April 22/44 and U-247-Sept. 1/44. The first three were sunk in the Atlantic and the lasst off Wolf's Rock, near Land's End, England. In fact all of the real action I saw was while assigned as a Huff Duff Operator on Swansea , Atlantic, around the British Isles, Bay of Biscay and between England and Gibraltar. We were doing A/S sweeps between Land's End, England and the Cherbourg Peninsula from June 6th on for a number of weeks following "D"-Day, then back into the Bay of Biscay set upon keeping Gerry's U-boats from entering the English Channel, in an attempt to disrupt the flow of Allied traffic between the South of England and the Normandy Beach Head.
After my ten months on Swansea and twenty eight day's leave, I joined HMCS Winnipeg, an Algerine Mine Sweeper, which was used as an escort vessel on the Triangle Run, Halifax, Boston, New York. We were tied up in Boston on VE-Day.
After Germany capitulated in the spring of 1945, most Canadian warships were getting ready to head for the Pacific, but then you know what happened in early August of that year.
Here's another bit of trivia, which you may or may not be aware of. At the outset of WWII the Canadian Navy consisted of a few River Class Destroyers and Bangor Minesweepers and about 5,000 personnel. At the end of the war the Canadian Navy was the third largest, in terms of the number of vessels, of the Allied forces in the world, 100,000 strong.
What's your main claim to fame?
Cheers,
J.R.C.</HTML>
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