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Pic of the week courtest of FRENCHY & PARA |
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Paul |
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Feb 3, 08 - 2:59 PM |
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Great picture, wish I was there for that trip!!.
We did it all again in 1965, and we continued a few of the traditions, like wearing the berets.
Seeing this picture with Charlie Catron MM3(SS), there on the right-hand end of the bench, reminds me of an event that happened when we were transiting home from Northern Europe in the fall of 1964.
We were on the surface beating-feet westbound. The radio guys, Goody included, were working the HAM bands, doing the amateur radio thing. It got very busy as a lot of the HAM operators rarely got a chance to work a submarine. I think they were using Gerry Welty’s call signs at the time, as Sea Robin did not have an amateur RADIO CALL. I could be mistaken on that.
Anyway I was off watch and hanging around in control as I often did. Charlie Catron had the AUX watch. I still recall him wearing that green foul weather jacket all the time. Anyway, at some point radio starts working with some guy in the L.A. area whose is using a mobile rig. He’s driving down the freeway or something. Goody pops his head out and yells to Catron that he’s got some guy in a car in L.A. Catron asks Goody to “find out where he is”. Goody asks the guy and relays the info to Catron, who says something like “he’s right near where my parents live”.
What happens next was an amazing thing to me as an observer, but Catron is giving driving instructions to Goody, who is relaying then to the guy in L.A. and in very short order the guy is pulling up to the front of Catron’s parents home. The driver knocks on the door and tells them that he has radio communications with their son’s submarine mid-way in the Atlantic Ocean, and if they’d like to chat with him, to come out to the car at the curb.
Truly amazing. |
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