Captain Santa Claus

 

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A letter from one of the COD Boarding Party . . .

 

Sam J. Bo Renfroe, from a letter dated 21 May 1996 (Excerpt from his response to an invitation to attend the BLENNY reunion in Milwaukee)

 

I didn’t serve on BLENNY but I did experience the thrill of being rescued at sea by BLENNY and her crew. I was one of the five crewmen off the USS COD that was left topside under a Jap plane attack, spent a few days on a Jap junk, then had the good fortune of being found by BLENNY and returned to the COD.

 

I do recall Captain Hazzard, though, for I thought then and now that he would be a great skipper to serve with. I remember calling him Captain Santa Claus when they picked my bunch up.....

 

I don’t know why that popped into my mind, but it did. I suppose it was because, in our danger, I had been thinking about the happy times of my childhood and it seemed always to be at Christmas time. At this time, though, the sight of Captain Hazzard and the BLENNY crew far surpassed any joys of Christmas I had ever experienced!

 

Thus, the title Captain Santa Claus!!