[ODDJOB UNO]

my dad was in a army air corp eng battalion during wwII. he was in new guinea,biak,luzon. they would literally come in off the LST(landing ship troops) while under fire and start bulldozing /blasting roads and runways or rebuild existing runways etc.

well one of things they all loved was supplementing their food supplies and that entailed fishing. and that entailed boats. and usually since everywhere they went was an island there was always a contingent of PT boats there. and since they(army dudes) knew that PT boats had refrigerators on board, they made fast friends with the navy dudes and traded with them fishing trips for booze that was shipped in re-canned fruit containers from back home sent over as care packages.


navy dudes got their booze and the army dudes got high speed fishing trips and refrigerator space!


that is a NO POO STORY!


one of my dads most upsetting experiences of wwII was they had built a number of av gas fuel storage tanks and fuel lines down to the PT boat docks. this was on new guinea. and since manpower was short, they enlisted the natives as dockworkers. all the natives used to chain smoke camel cigarettes constantly. one day this native was smoking while they were refueling a PT boat and the av gas vapors ignited causing a explosion and fire and my dad lost quite a few real close friends that day along with a number of PT boats going up in flames.



we LOVE PT BOATS!