My Grandfather, on a Canadian corvette in WWII. The ship escorted vital supply ships to Britain, and was almost totally unarmed, with cardboard gun-shaped decoys on deck. He worked below deck in the boiler room during the U-boat threat, and lived to tell the tales.Submitted by _BELEAF_ t3_127whej in OldSchoolCool
_BELEAF_ OP t1_jegbbqs wrote
Reply to comment by Canucklehead_Esq in My Grandfather, on a Canadian corvette in WWII. The ship escorted vital supply ships to Britain, and was almost totally unarmed, with cardboard gun-shaped decoys on deck. He worked below deck in the boiler room during the U-boat threat, and lived to tell the tales. by _BELEAF_
Right, ok. Thank you. Does what you know compromise my understanding of the events and this particular situation? I mean, this was straight from my grandfather. And he was lucky to survive.
Canucklehead_Esq t1_jegc4at wrote
I think the substance of what you have is correct, except about the corvette's armaments.. if your grandfather served on a ship before this one, it may have had a fake gun
_BELEAF_ OP t1_jegd2ji wrote
Ok, thank you again! It seems feasible to me that this all may well have been the case for his particular ship. I imagine that you'd have a mix of older and newer ships at that point. And literally everything was put into service as everything was getting wiped out in those years.
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