Date/time: June 20, 2006, 12:00 local (z-9) Position at noon: 52D50.002'N 173D11.188'E noon to arrival Attu: 137 nm Avg. speed: 6.2 kts Miles to Attu: 0 Course bearing: None Wx: Wind SSW 15 to 20 kts, some fog and clouds Sea state: Swells 5 to 10' Water temp: in Bay 8.0D C Crew: Ben, Brad, Kevin & Kurt Remarks: With consistent and fair conditions, we arrived at Attu this morning with a bit of fog that has not burned off yet. >From the back of the book that we have onboard called, The Forgotten War, are a couple points about Attu and WW II. The first bombing of the Japanese homeland by land based Navy bombers was from the Aleutian Island. More than one billion dollars was spent on construction projects in Alaska and northwestern Canada by the U.S. Government in WW II. The first invasion of U.S. soil since the War of 1812, and happened in the Aleutian Islands on 1942. The first Japanese Zero captured intact in the war was on Atkun Island on July 1942. The longest continuous telephone line in the world was strung from Fairbanks, Alaska; to Edmonton, Alberta; along the Alaska Highway. The Battle of the Komandorski in March 1943, was the longest, continuous gunnery battle in modern naval history. -- Ben Gray Idlewild Custom Buehler 55 powered by a 55-hp Kubota Home port: Dunvegan, Alberta http://www.idlewildexpedition.ca http://dieselducks.com/Idelwild.html http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/attu-homepage.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attu_Island http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/7attu/7attu.htm To follow Idlewild with Google Earth: http://tinyurl.com/ksnhg For the Trawler M/V JPEG version: http://tinyurl.com/ovdt7