Battle of the Atlantic: A U-boat hunter remembers

An item from the Legion Magazine.


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Battle of the Atlantic: A U-boat hunter remembers

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

They’d be there when Able Seaman Elmer Auld landed on the bridge for his early-morning watch aboard the corvette Giffard—seven U-boats somewhere out in the mid-Atlantic, beyond the cover of air patrols, in an area known as “The Black Hole.”

Then, almost as if they had waited for his arrival on deck, the German wolf packs would disappear beneath the waves and “it”—the hunt—was on.

 

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Unfit for action overseas during WW I, Albert Goodwin fought at home for workers’ rights

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Albert Goodwin, known as “Ginger,” due to his red hair, emigrated to Canada in 1906 and began working in a mine on Vancouver Island.

The company Goodwin worked for paid white miners about $4 a day, support workers less and Chinese workers a fraction of that.

 

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