Veteran’s Day: Remembering those who served, and a surprising Scientology connection

Karen#1

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TONY ORTEGA
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[US and British troops landing in Sicily, 1943]
Our great thanks to one of our all-time favorite members of the Underground Bunker community for this Veteran’s Day remembrance.


A surprising Scientology connection….

As in previous years I write to pay tribute to my Uncle Graham, a Scotsman who began WWII serving with the British Norway Expeditionary Force and ended it with Operation Husky, the Allied landings in Sicily.

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To my surprise I’ve discovered details of another Scotsman, also taking part in those two events; a Scotsman that would eventually become Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard’s flagship, the Apollo.

This Scotsman began life as MV Royal Scotsman, a cattle ferry operating between Belfast and Glasgow. At the start of WWII she was requisitioned and was one of the vessels transporting troops, including my uncle, to Norway in a brave but unsuccessful attempt to prevent German troops from occupying northern Norway.

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