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E ARC provided by Edelweiss PlusIn 1942, the Downs family was returning from Colombia on the freighter Heredia, owned by the United Fruit Company, for who the father, Ray Downs, worked. Because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and other events surrounding the beginning of WWII, the family thought it wise to return home. The mother, Ina, was a little disappointed because the home the company provided was nicer that the one they had had in the US, and the children, Ray, Jr. and Lucille, had been enj...
Tells the story of the sinking of the freighter Heredia in May of 1942 shorty after the US entered WWII. The story centers on a family returning from South America to the US on the freighter and how they survived the ordeal.
Wow!! What an ordeal this family endured! This true tale was gripping and suspenseful. I appreciated that the faith of the mother was included.Note: someone calls the men "jackasses." The mother, in fear and desperation, shouts at the sharks and fishes around her, "damn you to hell!" A man is mentioned as being naked after the attack and while waiting to be rescued, because he had been in the shower and jumped out the window when the ship was torpedoed. The father seeks revenge.
In 1941, the Downs family - father Ray, mother Ina, Lucille, 11, and Sonny, 8 - had hoped that by spending some time in Columbia, South America and Costa Rica in Central America, where Ray worked for the United Fruit Company, they would be able to save enough money to buy a house and new car when they returned to the United States. But now that the US had entered the war, they decided it was time to return to their home in Texas and their oldest son Terry, 14, who was staying with his grandparen...
An interesting true story of a family who was travelling on a United Fruits banana boat from Columbia(?) back to New Orleans and were torpedoed by U-506.Told mostly from the point-of-view of the son, Sonny.
Very good, interesting, and suspenseful book! Highly recommended for readers interested World War 2 (which I am!) and survival stories.
3.5 ⭐️
tang
It ended abruptly, using an afterword to wrap things up that could have been incorporated into the story itself, however otherwise this was an eye-opening true story from war that is harrowing. A family-- husband, wife, and their boy and girl (their second boy was already back in the States)-- who were on a shipping container ship back from South America to get back to the United States after the father had worked in Colombia for several years. Their ship fell pray to a German U Boat in the Gulf...
