Nelson Smith | WWII Aleutian Islands Seabees and Vineyard Ties

WWII took Nelson Smith (1925-2017) to the far western reaches of the United States where he served as a Seabee (U.S. Naval Construction Battalions) in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. In an excerpt from a 2002 interview with Linsey Lee, Nelson tells how he found that the tentacles of the Vineyard are spread worldwide. A life-long Vineyarder, after the War he returned home to the Island and worked as a commercial fisherman - swordfishing and scalloping - a skipper for private yachts, a charter fishing boat captain and, from 1986 -1984, as the captain of the Chappy Ferry.
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