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Title: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 19, 2018, 04:24:30 pm
NARA URL                              JPG Images Link    Location     Sector
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24428007June (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0001.JPG)
July (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0047.JPG)
August (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0096.JPG)
September (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0142.JPG)
October (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0178.JPG)
November (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0219.JPG)
December (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0258.JPG)
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Voyage plot (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_AVhrxCoKGP3Z507Nz2rEtN8D9HIKWvT)
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 19, 2018, 05:20:35 pm
Ice Hunting Guide (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4690.0)
Using the Tracker for Ice Hunting (Provisional) (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4821.0)
Ask Questions Here (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4826.0)
Note: Currently we only want the months that have a green stripe on the month tab in the Tracker and only one transcription is required per page.


OW web site: Eastwind (https://sites.google.com/view/owfaq/ships/shipyard/eastwind)

Direct links
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 19, 2018, 05:21:33 pm
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Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 19, 2018, 05:21:41 pm
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Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on February 07, 2018, 06:01:55 pm
The Capture of the German Naval Auxiliary Externsteine by the Coast Guard Icebreakers Eastwind & Southwind in Greenland, 1944 (http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?t=9768)

Thanks to Pommy Stuart ;)
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 14, 2018, 12:34:52 am
04-Sept-1944
Little Koldewey Is, Greenland.
Took on board 23 12 (6 + 5 + 1 on different trips.) German prisoners, captured stores and equipment.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0186.JPG (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0186.JPG)

(Storis had took on board 4 prisoners from Northwind in Sept, maybe different ones?)
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on February 14, 2018, 06:43:47 am
They list 12 prisoners in the list at the bottom.
The count in the 0400-0800 watch is a bit cryptic, but perhaps they mean that they took 11 prisoners as 6 in one trip and then 5 in a second trip - and then 1 more in a third trip.

Quote from: http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?t=9768
Eastwind carried a specially trained team of Coast Guardsmen that served as a landing force. That force was under the command of Lieutenant Junior Grade Alden Lewis. He and his men had undergone training in commando tactics and artic warfare, a specialized type of fighting that made these men unique in the annals of Coast Guard history and an important asset to the Greenland Patrol. The Eastwind neared the German camp first seen by the icebreaker's J2F on North Little Koldewey Island and Thomas ordered the landing force to launch their attack in the early morning hours of 4 October 1944.

The landing force shoved off on schedule with the thermometer reading zero degrees Fahrenheit. Despite the cold, Alden's team located the camp, surrounded it, and captured what turned out to be a 12-man German team with ease. The bag of prisoners included the commanding officer, Lieutenant ( and Ph.D.) Karl Schmid, a German Naval Artillery officer, without firing a shot. They also captured nearly 200 tons of supplies and equipment, including high-powered radios and meteorological instruments, weapons, secret documents that revealed details of the three expeditions, and a dog named Zipper.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 15, 2018, 05:00:23 pm
Eastwind has now started entering some nice sketches mid page under Temp heading.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0194.JPG (https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0194.JPG)

How do I enter those????   ;)

Have entered Sea ice grid 00 ice to 24 Ice
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Bob on February 15, 2018, 05:29:22 pm
Quote from: Pommy Stuart on February 15, 2018, 05:00:23 pm
How do I enter those????   ;)

 :o

Step 1, figure out what they mean...  :P
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on February 15, 2018, 05:41:00 pm
Always something new ::)
Helpful though ;D

Perhaps the percentages could be appended to the "ICE" entry in the grid?
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AM
1 ICE
2 ICE
3 ICE
4 ICE
5 ICE
6 ICE
7 ICE
8 ICE
9 ICE 85
10 ICE 85
11 ICE 90
12 ICE 90
PM
1 ICE 90
2 ICE 50
3 ICE 95
4 ICE 95
5 ICE 100
6 ICE 95
7 ICE 95
8 ICE 90
9 ICE
10 ICE
11 ICE
12 ICE
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 15, 2018, 07:35:28 pm
Randi.
Look at

Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0195_9C156390.xml

to see I did it to your satisfaction.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on February 15, 2018, 08:38:27 pm
I don't see that file :-[
Would you please PM it to Michael and me?
We need to be sure it works for him too ;)
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 16, 2018, 01:16:52 pm
More funny ice symbols on pages
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0197.JPG
and
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0198.JPG
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 16, 2018, 01:24:46 pm
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0199.JPG

A change from the usual Monday morning blues.

15 Oct 1944
2214 Contacted target 4000yds dist on port beam in position 75-22N, 17-25W.
2241, Target identified as enemy (Exernsteine later on page) frozen in ice; opened fire.

16 Oct 1944
Underway in extremely heavy ice, approaching surrounded German ship.
0050 Landing party disembarked to ice to take prisoners.
0200 Manoeuving in ice to close captured ship.
0220 17 German prisoners aboard.
0240 Salvage party departed to look over the ship.
1605 Freed enemy trawler from ice. Unofficially renamed Exernsteine Externsteine (Eastbreeze)


Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on February 16, 2018, 01:36:34 pm
Quote from: Pommy Stuart on February 16, 2018, 01:16:52 pm
More funny ice symbols on pages
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0197.JPG
and
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/24428007/content/dc-metro/rg-026/587169/0001-A1/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944/Eastwind-WAG-279-1944_0198.JPG

It looks like Air Wet Bulb is percent coverage in both cases?
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 16, 2018, 01:48:04 pm
The column NEXT to wet bulb (water at surface), the one with the grid pictures then 1700 down you have pointy things.
Next page 1800 down letters T and TTT.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on February 16, 2018, 02:08:02 pm
:o :o :o


How to "transcribe" those is Kevin's and Michael's problem ;D

Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 16, 2018, 02:55:18 pm
I think the rectangles in the wet column indicate the shape of the patrol area and the marks in them are where the ice is.
Letters and shapes who knows.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on February 17, 2018, 06:51:16 pm
1944 Completed.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on March 07, 2018, 12:15:53 pm
The voyage for Eastwind 1944 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uvDcpyMQxEHLKGADzivCsVxh1EgkX8zh) has been processed.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1944) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on March 07, 2018, 01:55:41 pm
I remember that voyage.  :)
I just forgot to take photos.  :o

(Nov and Dec to go and you can have 1945)