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Corvettes Canada, convoy veterans of WWII tell their true stories, Mac Johnston

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Mac Johnston

convoy veterans of WWII tell their true stories

"They didn't even have uniforms for Us"/The race to Build escorts -- "There was nothing like an echo to shake you up"/Corvette and U-boat Capabilities -- "Engine stopped and lights glaring, but you had no time to think of death"/The Iceland Run, 1941 -- "Blood brothers to a cork when it came to riding out a rough sea"/Bad weather and the first corvette losses -- "I do remember him telling me it was so cold on the North Atlantic, so cold..."/The sinking of HMCS Spikenard -- "I met my husband at the Staten Island USO"/The main convoy routes, 1942 -- "You can imagine what a smelly, dirty-looking crew we were after a few days at sea"/Living conditions aboard corvettes -- "If you want real tough, take life aboard a corvette while seasick"/Seasickness -- "One dollar per day per man at sea"/Food and cooks -- "Wartime at sea in the Atlantic was certainly a far cry from the relatively quiet time in the Pacific"/New theatres, 1942 -- "From the bridge above came the captain's command--Abandon Ship!'"/The Mediterranean, 1942-43 -- "The winter, the sea -- these were the enemy"/From rough to ready, 1943 -- "It's morale that's important"/Corvette life and characters -- "There was no flash -- just a huge wall of water into the sky"/The Slogging continues, 1944 -- "A few days later we learned that we had been searching for Glenn Miller...No wreckage was ever found"/The English channel, 1944-45 -- "The war is Over! Splice the main brace"/war's end to present