Chris:
Thanks for your interest. Actually what started out as a single scrap book is now three books. Originally I made a cover, a brief history of the Manitowoc ship builders, a page for each boat with very brief history and specifications, a photo, and a page with postal first day issues for Keel Laying, Launch, and Commissioning. There seemed to be an interest of late in the postal issues. I was fortunate enough to find that an old Manitowoc native had collected a set of all three issues for all 28 of the Manitowoc Subs. I scanned all of them and put them on an individual page for each sub with a patch, and Navy Seal. This was when I moved other data like Deck Logs, Memorials, News releases, tons of photos and Museum History to a second book. I, like many others, am overwhelmed by the amount of data available on the web pages today. So now the second book has got too large. To add insult to injury most of the pages are no longer on files, do to a computer crash some time ago, and they must be scanned back into jpeg files. I am considering doing this for book #1, and making it available on a CD free to anyone who might be interested. I have always believed that scrap books should be heavy on photos and graphics and light on text. Also I have about 15 or so other scrap books I am trying to keep up for WWII, and beyond, for other Veteran's groups, and friends. I also thank my good friend Don Messener (USS DIODON) for condensing the Manitowoc Ship Builders History into one page, a rather difficult task.