The Italian Campaign Begins At Sicily
Heroes Remember
We started heading out. We didn't know where we were going, mind
you, when it finally took off, but we got into a huge convoy.
And we started going and we got into where it was warmer, warmer,
and it was finally when we were outside the Mediterranean
somewhere where they told us where we were going to go, to
Sicily. But prior to that, there was a huge convoy and a lot of
the ships were flying the black flag, for submarines cause there
was a ship or two that got hit with our guys in it, we lost all
out transport there, as a matter of fact. But they picked the
crews up and put them in a prison camp in North Africa until the
landing was to take place. But I'll never forget the Corvettes.
The storms were bad in there and these little Corvettes, you'd se
them for one moment, and the one moment they were up on the high
wave and you could see the prop just a spinning, and then down it
would go. It'd take quite a while before it could come up
again. But these little ships got in the circle in this one area
and they were throwing depth charges. And in this one area,
all at once this thing like a cigar came out of the water way
up and then down a little. And I was standing on the bow there
watching and it blew and it was on fire and it went down, it was
gone. It was a submarine, German submarine they got. It was
amazing to see that happen.
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