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BY RAHN ADAMS
In the spring of 1945, Ensign Albert Boelune passed
up a comrnercial flight from Australia baek to the United
States. Instead, he decided to work his way across the
Pacific on a U.S. Navy submarine.
Some 36 years later, Boehme retired from his profession
as a heavy equipment distributor in the Northeast
and decided to move to a warmer climate. He and his
wife, Edna, chose the North Carolina coast.
Those two decisions seemed totally unrelated until
about two months ago, when the 73-year-old Holden
Beach resident stopped at Wilson's Supermarket in
Shallotte for some groceries. There, by chance, he came
face to face with a link to his past.
Stock clerk Mike Bishop, 67, of Boone's Neck, was
busy bagging groceries when the apparent stranger asked
Bishop on a whim if he had ever served in the Navy. It
didn't take the two men long to realize that their paths
had crossed before?on a 16-day submarine war patrol
from Fremantle, Australia, to San Francisco, California,
aboard the USS Rock in World War II.
"I came through the line getting my groceries, and
Mike was at the other end of the line," Boelune recalled
in a joint interview last week.
He added that he had no idea the two had been shipmates
when he made his inquiry of Bishop. "I did not
recognize him," Boehme said. "He looked too young, and
I looked too old."
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Bishop, who has been'in touch with other USS Rock
crew members since the war, also was surprised to find
out that Boehtne has lived at Holden Beach for the past
seven years.
"I didn't recognize him either," Bishop said, "but
after I met him and got to thinking back, yes, I
remembered him."
But to say the two ex-sailors were bosom buddies on
the submarine wouldn't be entirely true, because
Boehrne was an officer and Bishop was an enlisted man.
Also, the war patrol they shared svas Bishop's sixth on the
USS Rock, while it was Boelune's first assignment on
that particular submarine.
"He's an old plank-owner," Boehmc said of Bishop,
who was among the ship's original crew. The submarine
was launched on I^ake Michigan at Manitowoc, Wisconsin,
in 1943.
The two men's respective day-to-day duties on war
patrol allowed them to see each other only in passing?that
is, until the submarine's 82 crew members took
their battle stations.
"It was a very, very hectic trip for me," Boehrne
said, "because I was learning to be a gunnery officer."
In battle. Bishop was stationed near the gunnery
crew as the submarine's stern planesman, his job being
to control the angle of the ship underwater.
According to a copy of the ship's log, the war patrol
covered 13,998 miles, with 15 days spent submerged.
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FORMER USS ROCK CREWMEN Albert Bochme
(left) and Mike Bishop look over old photographs of the
U.S. Navy submarine that carried them from Austrialia
to California ou a 10-aay pairoi aunng wuriu nar n.
Until two months ago, the two men didn't know they lived
only several miles apart in the Holden Beach area.
fhile on patrol, the USS Rock sank a Japanese destroyer
nd demolished an enemy radio station on Batan Island,
a turn, the submarine was hit by a dud torpedo, then by
n unidentified object dropped from a Japanese bomber.
"With a little luck, we did come out with a successful
>atrol," Boehme said.
When the 46-day patrol ended in San Francisco in
Vlay 1945, the two men went their separate ways.
3oehme, an 11-year Navy veteran, was discharged the
bllowing year. Bishop served until his retirement from
he Navy in 1966, his entire career spent with subnarines,
Before retiring to Holden Beach in 1981, Boehme livid
in New York and Connecticut, where he worked with
ieveral heavy equipment companies and owned an Interlational
Harvester dealership for a time.
After leaving the service. Bishop was employed by a
Jorfolk, Va., dredging company for 10 years. He and his
fife, Virginia, who died in March 1987, retired to Boone's
feck 11 years ago.
Both men said they moved to Brunswick County
nainly for two reasons?its climate and its location.
"I've lived next to water all my life, and I spent 24
ears in the Navy," Bishop said. "Now I'm only three
niles from the ocean." He added that he enjoys watching
hips sail the Brunswick County coast.
Boehme was more emphatic about his choice of a
lew home. "I couldn't find anything that beat Holden
leach," he said.
Besides, not every sailor can find a place that comes
:omplete with an old shipmate.
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