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Section 25: The Lounge Subject: B-17 Sentimental Journey Msg# 937026
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I got to do the same thing in Chicago as a kid back in the 1950s. The German sub U505 was captured during the war and put on display as part of a museum near downtown on the lake shore. They had a small theater where you watched the capture take place and then the process of getting it to where it was displayed. You went in an entrance at one end, walked through and then walked out an exit at the other end of the boat. We even got to look through the infamous periscope. It was an imagination-supercharging experience for a kid interested in all things WWII!
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: By the way, sliding down a bit, I love seeing old war machines and letting my imagination take over. Quite a few years ago now, Eric and I went inside a WWII US Navy sub permanently docked in downtown Cleveland Harbor not far from the Rock & Roll Museum (not worth seeing). We stopped inside the sub and sat down in the galley, and I imagined waiting under the ocean, running on electrics, sweating, listening for depth charges as Jap destroyer crisscrossed overhead, searching, searching.... |
But, heck, WWII had only been over for a few years then and Korea was flaring up.