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Blackburn Roc

 

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[Vaquero]

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Skills

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Shotgun Jeremy should like this.

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Where's this at?

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[Vaquero]

To be exact
Dropped Pin
near Luna County, NM 88029

https://goo.gl/maps/udLJpToB1SD2

Close enough: Columbus NM
Pancho Villa state park.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

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Now THAT is cool

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[Texasgordo]

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[benenglish]

The Narwhal, a picture that may only be cool to me. This is the boat that inserted my father into the Japanese-occupied Philippines on a mission to observe, report, relay radio traffic, and evade capture for as long as possible.

 

[Texan-in-Training]

The Narwhal, a picture that may only be cool to me. This is the boat that inserted my father into the Japanese-occupied Philippines on a mission to observe, report, relay radio traffic, and evade capture for as long as possible.

Your dad's exploits may have been the basis for part of a novel I read by W.E.B. Griffin called "The Fighting Agents. The submarine used in the story for the insertion was the Drum and not the Narwhal but I don't believe the Drum carried out any missions like your dad's.
Perhaps it was "poetic license" on the part of the author (although he uses a lot of real people like "Wild Bill" Donovan in the story), and maybe it was based on others.
At any rate, it's a good book and if you haven't already read it, I'd recommend it.

 

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Which one is the male?

 

[RoadRunner]

Which one is the male?

It is hard to tell now days.

 

[mroper]

Your dad's exploits may have been the basis for part of a novel I read by W.E.B. Griffin called "The Fighting Agents. The submarine used in the story for the insertion was the Drum and not the Narwhal but I don't believe the Drum carried out any missions like your dad's.
Perhaps it was "poetic license" on the part of the author (although he uses a lot of real people like "Wild Bill" Donovan in the story), and maybe it was based on others.
At any rate, it's a good book and if you haven't already read it, I'd recommend it.

I believe there is a whole series with alot of those chararcters in it. It was pretty good.

 

[DubiousDan]

I believe there is a whole series with alot of those chararcters in it. It was pretty good.

" Men at War series" 7 books in the series.

 

[benenglish]

Both the Drum and the Narwhal were used for those insertions.

Most of the histories I've read have been woefully incomplete. Did that book talk about the idiotic attempt to insert an entire radar installation into the occupied Philippines? They were on the boat with my dad. When they went ashore, unlike my dad, they weren't mobile. They had too much equipment. As a result, they were slaughtered in just a few days.

 

[Charlie]

Yep! (Ref. "Which one is the male.")

 

[Texan-in-Training]

Most of the histories I've read have been woefully incomplete.

As Dan mentioned above, it's part of the seven book "Men At War" series.
The story is about the OSS agents, both in Europe and the Philippines.
When the US commander of Corregidor surrendered all of US Forces in the Philippines to the Japanese, one US officer declined turning in his arms and people and they went underground as part of the resistance. That part of the book involves a critical supply mission and verification that communications from the group were not actually the Japanese, "baiting" a trap.
Anyhow, you might like the book.

 

[Texasgordo]

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