(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>   <p>One of the lesser told tales of World War II: Roughly two months after Pearl Harbor, 2 destroyers are to escort a supply ship to a Navy base on Newfoundland, Canada - but a heavy winter storm coupled with errors in navigation caused by the relative inexperience of the crew and over-reliance on the then new-fangled radar system, gets the ships some 30 miles off course, and sees two of them run aground. And it's only thanks to local miners that about half of the crews of the two vessels survived, as they risked their lives saving as many as they could, without the least experience let alone training in rescue mission, but their hearts in the right place - and knowledge of the lay of the land at least going for them. It was a definite act of war heroism, and one the American Navy tried to hush up back when as losing two ships to heavy weather before even engaging with the enemy wasn't exactly fitting the uplifting narrative they were looking for. But in that little miner town in Canada, the event is celebrated to this day, eclipsed by a reunion of survivors and saviours in 1988 where there wasn't a dry eye left ...<p> <p>As mentioned, this is a rather under-covered tale of World War II, and of course in the grander scheme of things a less important one, too - but filmmaker Terry Strauss manages to trigger just the right emotions to make one feel what the story must mean for those involved by creating a proper build-up and narrative arc out of pieced together interviews, photographs and illustrations while losing narration sparingly enough to not get too factual and cold. And the outcome is a pretty fascinating document of heroism off the battlefields, but one that comes from the heart. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2021"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>