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Mr. Nordlund recalls his service on the North Atlantic on convoy escort and the degree of roughness at sea.
Transcription
The North Atlantic was rough because there was some of the bad storms. The roughest time I had, I was on, just for a short while, worked out of Scapa Flow on the Orkney Islands in Northern Scotland and I went on two convoys there and in that convoy escort group there was Canadians, British and Russian ships and the one convoy went to Murmansk and the other convoy went to Archangel and at that time Germany had taken over Norway so if the weather was good, you had to contend with the submarines in the North Sea and the aircraft from Northern Norway. If the weather wasn’t good, it was terrible, worse than the North Atlantic. Now I saw it when it wasn’t too bad but most of the time we were there we were mainly good weather so we had the submarines and the aircraft. Most of my convoy escort work was the North Atlantic. I made two other trips to the Mediterranean, one to Gibraltar and one to Malta, other than that my time was North Atlantic, convoy escort