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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3673
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: Advice for Submariners
Current and Future Boatsailors.... Take Note.
Write down and date every detail of every day aboard every boat.
Photograph everything and everyone with names, dates, and descriptions of all photos taken.
If you use nicknames, remember that persons real name.
Collect and keep every business card, matchbook cover, hotel/motel receipt, dodad and thingamabob.
Smile, every chance you get.
* Free advice from an old submariner and submarine website nonqual.
Someday you will need to remember who Ski, Tex, Slim and whatshisname were and when and where you did what you did!! |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1431
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Sorry NO CAN DO!!! Can you imagine all those guys calling you up over that five bucks you forgot to pay back now at 5% interesr after 30 years.......Holy backrupcy court Batman!!!! |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: Advice for Submariners
Gary, I was told that if you were found with a camera on a nook, that they hauled you out to five miles the other side of Eastjeeezus out in the Chawawa-Boobelies and dropped you down an abandoned well DEX |
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WWII Sub Vet
Posts: 135
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Dex's right. We weren't even allowed to HAVE cameras. That included Officers too.
So--NO PICTURES-NO WAY.
Warshot |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2561
Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: Warshot
When Elmer & I were struggling to put his memoirs together, I asked him if he had kept a journal of his experiences. He replied, "Absolutely not! It was strictly forbidden because if a man were captured with such a document it could, etc., etc., etc."
Guess what his daughter brought me a couple months ago? Did he forget that he had documented "stuff" over 60 years ago? I'd sure like to ask him. Of course, what he did document was info that was in the Official War Patrol Reports, and we did have that before he died.
About pictures. He came home with enough pictures to fill a fair-sized album. They included many of his shipmates, pictures of the battle flag in early construction and pictures of rescued pilots.
Did you have pictures from your WWII service? Did you rely only on your memories when you wrote "Torpedo man?"
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Plankowner
Posts: 5024
Location: Gulfport, MS | Subject: RE: Advice for Submariners
That is gret advice, Gary... thanks for the post. I can't begin to count the hours I have spent trying to identify the faces and places on the 1,000's of pictures and slides we have in the Archerfish Collection. Every picture has a memory to someone... and every memory becomes a story... even if it only starts with one or two sentences. Those are the stories we all need to be recording now while a lot of our shipmatres are still around to help. We have been doing this with Archerfish memories since 1994 and now have well over a thousand pages of stories... all in chronologicil order... and in most instances, pictures to offer as proof that just maybe (at least part of) the story is true.
Every boat should have a self-appointed historian to preserve the history. Spelling doesn't count... only a commitment. There are a lot of us on this board that have made that commitment to individual boats... don't re-invent the wheel. Pick a boat that isn't being worked on. You don't even have to have rode the boat... just show a willingness to collect the stories "and stuff" and the crew will respond... slowly at first... but when they realize you are serious they will sign-on to assist.
"I don't know how or where to start" isn't an excuse. There is more advice out here than you will know what to do with... all you have to do is ask.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2191
Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: RE: Advice for Submariners
Ken (Pig) and I are in complete agreement. I started my "collection" of the USS Sealion some 39 years ago (including pictures from that time). At no time after WWII do I remember anything that was "so secret" (other than the radio shack in operation) that I couldn't take pictures if "cleared". Hell, Cowboy and I went aboard the Henry M. Jackson and I took over 100+ pictures (pre-approved) from the reactor forward. The secret service "ain't THAT secret"...
Edited by crystal 2008-03-13 2:44 PM
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WWII Sub Vet
Posts: 135
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Yes. Diaries were strictly forbidden.
I still don't know how the Chief that kept a diary on Barb that Fluckey used for his book Thunder Below got out without a Courtsmartial.
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WWII Sub Vet
Posts: 135
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John,
It was in World War ll.
Warshot |
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