Addition
to Operation Iceberg story by TM2(SS) Jim Tobin on Diodon, crew of '46
Since 08-03-02
From: "jim tobin"
ss280@atlantic.net
Subject: additions to sea story
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000 7:07 AM
As a plank owner of
Diodon, I enjoyed the
Alaska stories, some additions or corrections follow,
[#1.] When we got underway, the four boats were side by side. Things were going good until one of the boats had a major electrical problem and lost all propulsion for a short period of time.
The loss caused the boats to start drifting astern, so we broke up the four abreast and got underway on our own.
#2. Boberick not only lost the heaving line when he ran up to the bull nose to heave it out to one of the boats that was bringing back out [the] torpedo that we had fired but he also lost a shipmates fishing rod when he tried to make a cast and forgot to hold on.
#3. The fish we fired at the Washington Glacier? was a mark 18. If I recall it right, the cumshaw guys radio talk was picked up by some Navy people in Seattle who called the Army people at the base in Alaska.
I still keep in touch with Platia (RM1), Stemp (TM1) and Wilson
(CTM)
I am Jim Tobin (TM2).