Watching “Greyhound” on Apple TV. I knew 3 men that served in the North Atlantic.

We need to tell their stories while some are living

AI Watts director of the “York Academy of Arts” in York PA was a RCAF U Boat killer bomber pilot. 

A friend of Mr. Watts who was a writer that was published in National Geographic was also a RCAF pilot. They did a pilot to tower comedy routine. 

No. 10 (Bomber) Squadron RCAF was a new, unrelated unit that was formed by the Royal Canadian Air Force on 5 September 1939 for anti-submarine warfare using the same, now disused squadron number, and was active for the duration of the Second World War.[3]

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No. 10 Squadron RCAF

I met a guy in York PA that was on a Royal Navy Corvette on convoy support duty. He woke up in the North Atlantic blown completely out of the ship. He was terrified of cold water ever since.



Ed Jaslow my boss at Jaslow Dental Lab in Jenkintown PA was a Navy Signalman assigned to convoy duty. 

To my knowledge Ed is 96 years old and still living. 

When Ed sufficiently imbibed at lab holiday parties he did a flag signal thing. Hopefully he can still do it.

"Imagine yourself on a beach in Sea Isle City in the winter of 1942. It’s night, and a cold, steady breeze off the Atlantic numbs your nose. The shock and horror of the attack on Pearl Harbor remains fresh and raw as you look out toward a distant orange glow on the horizon.

You know it’s an American ship, probably an oil tanker from how long that fire has been burning out on the open ocean. It’s the opening days of America’s involvement in a war that has already spread around the world, with dire, implacable enemies to the east and the west. Even as thousands volunteer to fight in Europe, Africa and the Pacific, war has come to our shores."

WHYY

The history of submarine warfare off the Jersey coast

By
• Bill Barlow 
October 4, 2018