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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 9744721, member: 22&quot;]I can&#039;t imagine my Dad paying $1 to have a photograph taken with a nobody, $2 even, because there&#039;s two identical photos.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Maybe he got the other guy to pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>They travelled up to Halifax to pick up a new ship that Canada had built for us and stayed in Lockeport I believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some member(s) of the French Canadian Vichy sabotaged the ship by putting sand in the pistons so they had to wait in Canada for 6 weeks until it was repaired.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few months later he did the whole journey again to pick up another ship. April 1945.</p><p>This time before the ship was signed over they took it out on sea trials and a German U-Boat surfaced nearby and surrendered, it was the last days of the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a shot of the U-Boat crew prisoners in Shelburne.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]477502[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a couple more shots of Dad, very poor photographs taken with a Baby Brownie</p><p><br /></p><p>I think he was operating a canon in this one or even a depth charge device, ciggie in mouth.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]477503[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some more undated.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]477504[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]477505[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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