Canucklehead_Esq

Canucklehead_Esq t1_jegc4at wrote

Reply to comment by _BELEAF_ 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_

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

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Canucklehead_Esq t1_jegaebp wrote

Reply to comment by _BELEAF_ 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_

The US didn't enter until 1941. Canada declared war in Sept 1939. In the early part of the war U-boats dominated the North Atlantic, blockading the UK. The Allied response was to organize large convoys and protect them with small ships like the corvette, that were specifically made to hunt substances. The corvette and the new of the Canadian Navy were instrumental at that.

The U-boat threat would probably have been at its peak sometime in 1941 or 1942, but convoys and the development of increasingly effective antisubmarine warfare turned the tide soon after.

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Canucklehead_Esq t1_jeg7nws wrote

Reply to Why do so few American movies let foreign language speaking characters speak their own language? Why does everything have to be in English... by _wyfern_

Almost anything American made prior to the 1960s was almost completely in English. The first movie I recall with non-English speaking parts was Tora Tora Tora.

That's been changing now, especially as so much of the content on major streaming sites is foreign made.

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Canucklehead_Esq t1_jeg6omb wrote

Reply to comment by _BELEAF_ 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_

If he was in a corvette, I would think not. They were lightly armed. They did have front (and maybe rear) cannons for surface encounter, but their primary purpose was as a U-boat hunter.

I believe there were ships at the start of the war that employed fake guns, but I think that was before the corvettes came into service

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Canucklehead_Esq t1_jcgiux4 wrote

Reply to Hi, I’m Molly Owens, CEO & Founder of Truity – the personality assessment company. You can ask me anything about personality types and personality research, including the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs theory or the Big Five system of personality. by truity_psych

IHi

I've done Enneagram and Myers-Briggs. They're entertaining and possibly informative, but I never found them useful in informing me about career path, or life choices or anything else.

How can such testing be used in a way to benefit our everyday life?

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Canucklehead_Esq t1_j5bbqf7 wrote

Reply to comment by ExcitingOutside116 in Hi it’s Daniela Vincze ! . Back in the 80s and 90s me and my husband were instrumental in the falling of the Berlin Wall. We practically broke East of Europe out of communism. AMA me ! by [deleted]

The Ceausescus were in power a very long time and their fall from power (and subsequent execution) happened very quickly. Were you a part of their downfall? What was your movement called?

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