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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 851
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How do I access Dex’s stories, or are they gone |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 206
Location: Edina. MN | Subject: RE: After battery
Here is a link on Martini's site Https://www.http://www.rontinisubmarinebbs.com/the-after-battery-rat-by-dex-armstrong_topic5350.html |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: After battery
Sadly we are missing stories by Mike Hemming and a few others but this is a wonderful thing,
Tanks Ron & Dan. |
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Old Salt
Posts: 330
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Alternately...
You can download the Dex files here - http://www.cdhaggard.com/Dex.zip
Save and Unzip the folder, and then open the __LookHereFirst.jpg File First...
As shown, The _Index.htm file is the one to open to show all the Dexisms...
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Admin
Posts: 2294
Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: After battery
If somebody has the time to copy the "other" stories not written by Dex, you can still get them here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307014512/http://olgoat.com/ at the WayBack Machine 
Too bad Ray didn't send someone a copy of the site on DVD when his health started slipping.
Ric, you have a treasure trove of pre-WWII stuff - hopefully you've got a "partner in crime" set up.
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: After battery
Don, yes. My partner at PigBoats.COM is Dave Johnston. Dave was a Darter sailor and got out of the Navy about the time she was decomm'd. At 9/11 he made the decision to go back in the Navy. Here is his story: http://www.pigboats.com/davebio.html The Bio is a bit out of date and needs to updated but was good up to that time of printing.
The page is an old version of PigBoats that I had set up with Dave and another fellow Rick Larson. Rick passed away and the page sat idle for a while before I Re-purposed it into what it is today.
Dave and I have talked many times about what is to happen to the page and he has agreed to take it over. He recently retired as a Navy chief with 20 years from the Navy and getting settled in his second civilian life. Dave will have total ownership of PigBoats domain and all its archives. I have just started to organize and prepare just in case. I'm 74 and anything can happen but I hope not. |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 130
Location: Kennewick, Washington | Subject: RE: After battery
Don,
I already did that and have 286 pages of all of those other stories written by other boat sailors in a PDF file. I sent them to my cousin Ron and his computer Guru is going to put them up on Ron's BBS page, by the other Dex's After Battery Tales. It is a lot easier reading them now all in one document instead of logging in and out of each page. Some really interesting stories and observations - and of course they are all true TINS. |
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Admin
Posts: 2294
Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: After battery
Sounds good Dan. I think these old school BBS's are no long for the world. Facebook and others are taking over. I only bring this up as you, me, Ron et al... well, none of us are spring chickens so I can't exactly recommend you find a younger bbs-minder to keep a copy - they just don't exist.
Thanks for taking the time to grab them all!
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1602
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Thanks for the source to find Dex's writings.
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Old Salt
Posts: 431
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I have them all, lately Ive been posting them of submarine facebook pages.
I will cooperate with anyone that wants to keep them all in one place.
PS I have written a few new ones and have a couple "in the works"
Ill remember to post them here.
My history got delete during a computer change sometime ago and this board got lost.
Thanks to shipmate Ron Mitchell for sending me the url and asking about this thread.
Edited by Boy Throttleman 2020-02-18 7:57 PM
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