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WWII Buffs: Ten year old eyewitness to sinking of the USS Reuben James
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:04 pm
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:04 pm
TL;DR Icelandic boy sailing to NY on a passenger liner as part of a convoy being attacked by a U Boat wolf pack. The US was not officially in the war, but was helping escort British convoys and was already in a de facto naval war in the North Atlantic. LINK
This post was edited on 2/20/17 at 8:19 pm
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:09 pm to Jim Rockford
Your thread title makes it sound like a 10 year old was recalling a previous life.
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:10 pm to colorchangintiger
That's honestly what I thought
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:15 pm to colorchangintiger
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Your thread title makes it sound like a 10 year old was recalling a previous life.
Yep
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:18 pm to colorchangintiger
Edited title.
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:21 pm to Jim Rockford
Was he technically part of the Greatest Generation?
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:24 pm to Jim Rockford
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Edited title.
OP's title still sucks
Posted on 2/20/17 at 8:27 pm to Jim Rockford
Roosevelt decided that siding with the Brits was in the US's national interest.
He was a former Undersecretary of the Navy who exactly remembered the effect of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania a generation earlier.
It was tragic for the sailors who were sacrificed and their survivors in the big two-political chess game.
As a US citizen, if I had lived through WWI and was aged 40 or over in 1940, I'd probably have been an isolationist. WWI was so horrible, I wouldn't have wanted any part of more war. It would have been the wrong position but who knew at the time?
He was a former Undersecretary of the Navy who exactly remembered the effect of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania a generation earlier.
It was tragic for the sailors who were sacrificed and their survivors in the big two-political chess game.
As a US citizen, if I had lived through WWI and was aged 40 or over in 1940, I'd probably have been an isolationist. WWI was so horrible, I wouldn't have wanted any part of more war. It would have been the wrong position but who knew at the time?
This post was edited on 2/20/17 at 8:28 pm
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