Bruce
Yutaka and his son, Shun, visited us Jan 5th thru 8th.
A number of individuals wrote thank you notes to Yutaka and that clearly was the highlight of the entire trip. You could see that he clearly treasured those notes.
One thing we learned that there was a 4th witness to the incident, Fukazawa, who wrote a book (novel) on the subject. It sold an astounding 33,000 copies.
Yutaka brought some remarkable models, one made by Motoyuki Iwashige, of the Kano Maru which is truly amazing.
Yuyaka also made models of the Grunion at the same scale (1 to 700), the sub chasers and a mini-sub.
I hope to get a photo of them on the website in the near future.
Yutaka and Pete at Bruce Abele’s reenacting the Grunion- Kano Maru confrontation
Photo by Shun.
While off Vietnam on board the U.S.S.Providence CLG-6 our new 6TH Fleet Flag Ship officer, Rear Admiral Robinson and his officers, Captian Taylor and Commander Leaver,JR died in a helicopter crash on our fail tail. The blades cut into a berthing compartment, next to mine, and required skin replacement in Okinawa, Japan. It’s the only deaths that I ever really knew, so I still think about them sometimes. Rear Admipal Robinson was buried at sea, the other two men were never found nor the helicopter. As the helo went overboard, the red light on the under side came off, broken, and I still have it. This has little to do with the Grunion except I still remember these lost men, and not talking about them is the worse thing we can do. Anyway, thanks for listening, Art, U.S. Navy Vietnam 1972
REAR ADMIRAL REMBRANDT C. ROBINSON, UNITED STATES NAVY
http://rear-admiral-rc-robinson.com/radmrobinson.html
POUNDING THE DO SON PENINSULA
http://rear-admiral-rc-robinson.com/images/RobinsonJA07.pdf