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Fred
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Thank you for this, Fred. I am a lifelong fan of Jules Verne’s Nautilus. I read Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea in high school, and again a couple of years ago. I saw the movie with James Mason when it was in theatres, and my wife and I watched it on TCM just a few weeks ago.
One result of my infatuation with the Verne’s story is my fascination with submarines. I joined the U.S. Navy to have some adventure. I got it. I didn’t enjoy all of it. My experiences with the Marines in Vietnam were not “adventurous". In the Navy in 1965, I was invited aboard U.S.S. Wahoo for a day cruise through Tokyo Bay and into the Pacific. After we submerged, I saw Mt. Fuji though the sub’s periscope, listened to a freighter passing overhead, using the boats hydrophone. and talked with a torpedoman who looked like Mr. Clean, including a single earring, and whose bunk was above a live, huge torpedo!
In the summer of 2019, before the Covid pandemic, my friend Mike Strachan* convinced me to re-start my teenage model building hobby. First i built a model of the T-34B U.S. Forest Service Mentor bird-dog plane which nearly killed me when it crashed in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, and then a model of the Sikorsky Seahorse helicopter that evacuated me from Hill 50 in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, after I was wounded in Operation Utah. My third model was of the Nautilus , not the Nautilus of the Disney movie, but one produced by the Pegasus model company. Here it is, with lights (my first attempt to use LED lights in a model).
Here’s another photo, showing the giant squid which is attempting to capture the submarine, and (from a second kit) the submarine's saloon:
Bob
* Within a year and a half, Mike, who had served as co-chair of VANPEX with me and lived just a block away, was gone. In January, 2020, he was diagnosed with a rare form, always fatal form of prostate cancer. Surgery that left him with a urostomy and a colostomy resulted in permanent, disabling pain. He died November 30 of that year. I will always miss you, Mike.
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Hi Bob,
I am happy that you found a connection to my short article and I really enjoyed the story of your career in the service. I joined the Air Force within days of graduating from high school and was stationed stateside for my entire enlistment.
Stamp collecting is, in my opinion, the most wonderful of hobbies as there is not subject that hasn't been portrayed on a stamp. These colorful little pieces of paper not only foster the pursuit of knowledge, but often leads to memories as the depiction of the Nautilus did for you on the stamp from this set.
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Stamps are fun! Here is a short article I wrote on a 2017 set of stamps from the Solomon Islands.
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Fred
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Thank you for this, Fred. I am a lifelong fan of Jules Verne’s Nautilus. I read Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea in high school, and again a couple of years ago. I saw the movie with James Mason when it was in theatres, and my wife and I watched it on TCM just a few weeks ago.
One result of my infatuation with the Verne’s story is my fascination with submarines. I joined the U.S. Navy to have some adventure. I got it. I didn’t enjoy all of it. My experiences with the Marines in Vietnam were not “adventurous". In the Navy in 1965, I was invited aboard U.S.S. Wahoo for a day cruise through Tokyo Bay and into the Pacific. After we submerged, I saw Mt. Fuji though the sub’s periscope, listened to a freighter passing overhead, using the boats hydrophone. and talked with a torpedoman who looked like Mr. Clean, including a single earring, and whose bunk was above a live, huge torpedo!
In the summer of 2019, before the Covid pandemic, my friend Mike Strachan* convinced me to re-start my teenage model building hobby. First i built a model of the T-34B U.S. Forest Service Mentor bird-dog plane which nearly killed me when it crashed in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, and then a model of the Sikorsky Seahorse helicopter that evacuated me from Hill 50 in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, after I was wounded in Operation Utah. My third model was of the Nautilus , not the Nautilus of the Disney movie, but one produced by the Pegasus model company. Here it is, with lights (my first attempt to use LED lights in a model).
Here’s another photo, showing the giant squid which is attempting to capture the submarine, and (from a second kit) the submarine's saloon:
Bob
* Within a year and a half, Mike, who had served as co-chair of VANPEX with me and lived just a block away, was gone. In January, 2020, he was diagnosed with a rare form, always fatal form of prostate cancer. Surgery that left him with a urostomy and a colostomy resulted in permanent, disabling pain. He died November 30 of that year. I will always miss you, Mike.
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Hi Bob,
I am happy that you found a connection to my short article and I really enjoyed the story of your career in the service. I joined the Air Force within days of graduating from high school and was stationed stateside for my entire enlistment.
Stamp collecting is, in my opinion, the most wonderful of hobbies as there is not subject that hasn't been portrayed on a stamp. These colorful little pieces of paper not only foster the pursuit of knowledge, but often leads to memories as the depiction of the Nautilus did for you on the stamp from this set.
Fred
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