Hmmm ! "Did you have a brother on the 'Rueben James' About 4 feet away from this 'Puter is my wardrobe. In it is a US of A Coast Gaurd uniform jacket given to my Grandfather as survivors clothing after he was picked out of the North Atlantic in 1941 by a US of A nuetrality patrol vessel. So please don't give me any of that crap. I will also mention that he was also picked out of the water in 1939, by a German merchant ship heading into Norway, and released as a survivor. The basic converstion was "thank God we are heading into a neutral port" My late grandmother kept up a post war correspondance with the Master of the german ship untill his death in the 1950's. PQ17 did him, and it was a sailor's grave, as a merchant seaman. Think about that one. Gareth
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