Some New News About Old Stuff.
1. 16 MILLION-- Records indicate that some 16 million Americans served during WW II. By 2000, only 5.7 million still were alive. Estimates say that 1000 a day are dying now. How many will be alive by 2010?
2. HAMLET SUNK-- C.J. Christ in his War in the Gulf column in the August 31 Houma (La) Courier wrote about the Norwegian Motor Tanker Hamlet which was torpedoed by a German U-Boat May 27, 1942, and sank off Morgan City en route from Beaumont, Texas, to the United Kingdom with 64,139 barrels on crude oil.
it was hit by 3 torpedoes from the U-753 and sank in 60 feet of water. Christ specializes in the naval war in the Gulf of Mexico during World War II and wrote 7 columns from 2000 to 2001. Makes for interesting reading.
Thanks, Mr. Christ.
3. MONOPLY IN WW II-- Helen Mildenhall in her August 26th Conversation at the Edge blog wrote about the British Secret Service putting maps in the Monopoly game boxes to help prisoners escape from German prisoner of war camps. The guards didn't check them much as they were happy that the games kept the Allied prisoners occupied.
The POW version had a metal file and a compass in the game pieces and some of the game money was real, for use in the escape.
I never knew this. Check it out at http://conversationattheedge.com. Look up Monopoly World War II. Very interesting article.
Now, You Know. --Da Coot
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