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At random: USS R-6 was fitted the first prototype US submarine snorkel at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the closing months of the European part of WW II in April / May 1945 and successfully tested it off Fort Lauderdale, Fl. as the war against Japan ended in August 1945. The snorkel was removed from the USS R-6 and she was decommissioned and scrapped in September 1945.

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609EM1

Posted 2009-01-11 5:28 AM (#23424)

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Subject: Fire and Ice movie...for the Finns

For Scrivener (and anybody else interested)......here is a site to order the movie.If you can't get it there I will try my luck at the National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming,that is where I got my copy.

http://www.fireandicemovie.com/

Let me know.

Scrivener

Posted 2009-01-11 8:19 AM (#23435 - in reply to #23424)

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Subject: RE: Fire and Ice movie...for the Finns

Thanks, Don.

Ric

Posted 2009-01-11 10:25 AM (#23441 - in reply to #23424)

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Subject: RE: Fire and Ice movie...for the Finns

Like I said in another post, my cousin Einar was in that war and took a Russian bullet in the face. Entered his right eye, exited through his chin and went through his left shoulder and out his armpit. The Finns stopped the Russians at Suomussalmi.

I've walked at battlefield at Raatte in 1975 and saw the huge mounds in the woods where all the Russians are buried. 50 to a grave mound. Lots of mounds. There is a sign on each one that says simply, ""50 Russians". I need to find my photos of that trip. You can still run your hands across the ground and pick up brass everywhere.

Here is a good link to that Battle.

http://heninen.net/raatteentie/sotatapahtumat/fin_e.htm

The Finns ultimately were bombed into submission since it was winter and all firefighting mains had been broken.

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