Re: OT: Video From 1945

Posted by CharlieNJ on May 20, 2011 at 18:19:36 from (76.117.68.151):

In Reply to: OT: Video From 1945 posted by El Toro on May 20, 2011 at 04:47:11:

Thanks for sharing the video E T.
On that day my father was on a destroyer escort off the Japanese coast. They had been through the Battle of Okinawa and a typhoon during the war. While the crew was in good spirits on VJ day, their war was not quite over. The threat of rogue enemy aircraft, ships, and mines caused the captain to issue General Quarters numerous times in the weeks that followed. Among their post war duties were a delivery of gold bar to Korea, and the rescue of a sinking junk loaded with refugees.
It was not until several months of duty after VJ day when their day of celebration came. On that day the captain ordered six naval signal flags to be run up the halyards on each side of the ship. My father"s station through the war was fire control, on the bridge. He controled the 5" gun on the bow. Such duty required him to know well the naval signal flags. The lot of the crew did not know those signals.
As he left the bridge after his watch that day, with the ship steaming hard to the East, nearly every sailor he past on deck asked him, "What"s that say, sir?"
He told each one in turn, "Foxtrot, Romeo, India, Sierra, Charlie, Oscar!" "FRISCO!
A week later they sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Days later he was discharged, and was on the train cross country. Although his ticket was punched for Philadelphia, he called my mother from a train station in the midwest to arrange for her to meet him ASAP at the train station in Baltimore. Driving late at night, she met him about 3:00 AM. As per his request, she had in hand a brown bag, in it civilian shoes, socks, pants, and shirt.
They walked to the nearest low priced Baltimore hotel. The night clerk had a silent smirk on his face as he issued a room to a sailor, and a pretty woman. As the story goes, the clerk was surprised to see the couple leaving just five minutes later, except the sailor was now in civies. The great war that had put their lives on hold was over, and their lives and love was to resume as before.
Charlie

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