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September 22, 2010

It's Wet, Icy Invitation to Join 'Goldfish Club' ***Swirlydoos***

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Cheryl’s September SGC challenge is a tough one: a “guy” page with embossing and visable journaling, all perfect for this story that I’ve wanted to scrap for a long time.
During World War II, my father served in the Army Air Corp as a waist gunner in the “Flying Fortress” bombers that ran sorties over France and Germany, starting with the ball bearing factory in Schweinfort. A lot of the men in his unit never made it back and several times his plane returned to base literally on a wing and a prayer.
On December 5, 1943, they had to ditch into the English Channel , where they were rescued after about 45 minutes. The photo and the story made the wire services and my father must have kept the clipping folded in his wallet for some time; it’s far more worn than all of the others.
As for the title: The “Goldfish Club” was founded in 1942 as an exclusive club for Airmen who had survived a wartime aircraft ditching and who owed their lives to the successful use of the Mae West inflatable life preserver, a rubber dinghy, or other type life raft.

I’ve used my father’s clippings as the title and the journaling. I reduced the size of the scanned album page so that it would fit on the page. (He’s second from right in the clipping, #7 in the album photo.)

The Bazzil cardstock and the pp, as well as the metal frame in the center of the flower are from the September Swirlydoos kit. The image in the center of the flower is the Goldfish badge. Because of the size reduction, it doesn’t show up that well; it’s a winged goldfish riding on three rows of waves.


layouts scrapbooking Swirlydoos World War II heritage father Distressed Heritage Masculine Vintage Die Cuts Distressing Embellishments Embossing Flowers Journaling Metal Work Family Military
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