SPRATLY ISLAND GROUP TROUBLE WAITING TO HAPPEN

Actually I've never heard of these islands, until I heard about this ...then I done some research and low and behold there they were.

So....is this trouble that is going to bubble to the surface???....you can bet your shorts on it.

Anytime you combine oil and oil turns into huge sums of money.....well it does not take any overly smart individual that this could be a hot spot where nations actually thing about shooting at one another over this "black gold".

Short article that could be extremely interesting in the future.

Click HERE if you'd care to give it a go.

SS EDWARD M. HOUSE

The SS Edward M. House happened to be a true blue Liberty freighter.  Built in 1943, met up with U-984...them two had a rather wild get-together...seems a torpedo came between their friendship.

Anyway even with this unfortunate meeting between them...you will be somewhat surprised by the outcome.

Well if you are inclined to let the eyes roll over this rather short ship history just click: HERE

HISTORY OF SS DELMUNDO

On 13 August 1942, the American Merchant Marine ship SS DELMUNDO was torpedoed by the German U-600 and sank in the Windward Passage, near Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Captain Henry Peter "Harry" Smith was the Master. He died two days later from injuries sustained during the attack.

The reason I am posting this very interesting event on this blog is the amount of info that is entailed in the history of this event.  If you are looking into 'info' about a family member that was maybe a Merchant Seaman or US Navy guy...this might be something you would want to take a look at.  After all many times at least I have found, info is buried in other ship histories events.

Click HERE  if you'd care to give this a read.

FLOATING WHITE HOUSE

Many of us recall what was referred to as the "Cold War"....this was somewhere back in the early 60s.  All of this centered around how we were going to survive a nuclear attack.

Dog tags were issued to many school children who also went through the "duck-and-cover" drills.  The government began issuing brochures, films, and radio advertisements to prepare US citizens of such an attack.

Also...many things were put into place to protect officials of our government...this was known as the "Doomsday Fleet."

FLOATING WHITE HOUSE

ABDA FLEET GOT POUNDED

Nobody starts out to lose a fight, or a battle, each side thinks they can gain the upper hand and be the gallant winners, even the countries that are known as 'super powers'.

In WW II the Allies formed up the ABDA [American, British, Dutch, Australian] Fleet to take on the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Well folks they did get into the battle...that was for sure, but the ABDA Fleet got there butt beat....loss of ten ship and 2174 sailors.

HERE is that story