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Topics => History => Topic started by: Libertas on May 29, 2015, 11:36:12 AM

Title: 83 days on a raft
Post by: Libertas on May 29, 2015, 11:36:12 AM

83 days adrift on a raft, 2 Nov 1942 - 24 Jan 1943

http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/oral-histories/wwii/83-days-on-a-life-raft.html (http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/oral-histories/wwii/83-days-on-a-life-raft.html)

Ugh.  What an ordeal.

Can't imagine what something like that would be like.

And I can't imagine average folks of this generation lasting half as long...

Title: Re: 83 days on a raft
Post by: AlanS on May 29, 2015, 04:58:59 PM

Wow!!! They called them the Greatest Generation for a reason. ::USA::