May 15 and 16, 1943
Nice warm weather and calm sea.
It does not get any simpler than this I suppose.
An Atlantic convoy underway as seen from a Royal Air Force Short Sunderland flying boat.
I would guess that there was a fair bit of tension and nerves on any voyage such as this with the threat of German U-Boats. At least the calmness gave all one less thing to worry about.
In 1943 and 1944, my Grandfather Merton Young traveled to Greenland while working for the Merritt-Chapman & Scott Company. He wrote a brief diary of his journey and this is a piece of that story.
Next Entry – May 17, 1943