It’s 35 degrees Fahrenheit this morning (it feels like a balmy 40 degrees in the shop) and we’re supposed to have flurries Friday morning. My blood is too thin for this so here’s a picture to remind me it could always be colder and wetter. I feel sure the North Atlantic in January qualifies…

The forward gun crew of U-123 prepare to engage a surface vessel sometime in January 1942.

This view from the conning tower of U-123 shows their intended victim in the distance.
via: http://ww2today.com/
More on U-123
Thought I’d pass this on to you…
https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/abmc-assumes-ownership-lafayette-escadrille-memorial-cemetery?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=#.WHTVGlUrKM9
Thanks for the head’s up! I’ll give this it’s own post in the near future