Neil, I was born 4-12-41 so don't remember much. I was outside playing when
I was 3 or 4 and heard thunder for the first time. Man I ran for the house as
fast as I could yelling " the japs are coming, the japs are coming". My mother
never did stop teasing me about that.
Had an Uncle that was on Wake island at the start of the war. Spent the
entire war in a Japanese prison camp. I remember going down to the dock with my
mom and aunt when the hospital ship came in. My aunt saw him and went right up
and over the chain link fence and ran to him. A shore patrol tried to stop her
and she floored him. I thought it was great. Doug Odom in big ditch
"Albaugh, Neil" wrote:
> Wes;
>
> I can't remember Pearl Harbor but I sure remember V-J Day!
>
> When I was a kid, we lived on the Isle of Palms outside of Charleston, SC
> and there were times that burning ships could be seen in the distance at
> night. German submarines patrolled the coast and torpedoed ships that left
> Charleston in convoys bound for Europe or the Mediteranean. After a
> hurricane, parts of the Charleston harbor's anti-submarine nets washed up on
> the beach in front of our beach house.
>
> Later, we moved to Myrtle beach and lived in a house on the beach. It was
> built up on pilings and at high tide the water would be under the house. I
> remember the Coast Guard riding horses up and down the beach checking that
> everyone had his blackout shades drawn at night so no light would be
> visible. U-boats used shore lights as navigation aids, so everything was
> blacked out at night.
>
> I also remember pulling my little wagon around the neighborhood collecting
> scrap metal for the war effort and my mother crying when my Dad had to go
> overseas. We were lucky-- my Dad came home but so many Dads didn't.
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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