- Inside the O’Briens, by Lisa Genova, Avery interesting read about Huntington’s Diseas
- Iris and Her Friends, A Memoir of Memory and Desire, by John Bayley, part of his recall of his life with his wife Iris Murdoch as she was a victim of Alzheimers, Very well written.
Day: August 27, 2020
Arctic Operation Haudegen Dr. Wilhelm Dege
On the outer fringe of WW2
The weather station where 11 German soldiers were trapped, forgotten by the fallen Nazis.
I thank Klausbernd for bringing this story to Pacific Paratrooper about the last German to surrender. Not wanting any part of war, Dr. Dege became part of Operation Haudegen….
Weather played an important role during the Second World War. It dictated the outcome of Naval battles and decided the routes of military convoys. Weather and visibility affected photographic reconnaissance and bombing raids. Much of D-day planning revolved around the weather, and the landing itself was delayed by 24 hours because of choppy seas. Weather information was so sensitive that it was transmitted encoded from weather stations.
By August 1941, the Allies had captured many weather stations operated by the Germans on Greenland and on Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway. These stations were critical because the air over Svalbard told a lot about what was…
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Memories Of Childhood
A memory of Marcia McDonald. We were very small, riding our tricycles. I rode ahead down the slight hill to stop at the home of Mrs. Campbell. Marcia came after me and as she stopped her wheel somehow caught the wheel of my tricycle and I toppled over, hitting my head on the sidewalk. The bleeding was profuse. Mrs Campbell came out of her house and carried me up the hill around the corner to my home. She was wearing a white dress – needless to say it was soon quite red. I had to have several stitches in my forehead. I still have the scar almost 80 years later.
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