Tales for the Trail from England to America: Short Stories Meant to Entertain the Reader

By Morgan Maine

When I was a child my wonderful family were constantly telling me stories about their lives,
adventures, wars they served in and wars they were to old or to young to fight or serve in. All past and current members of The United States Military are the reason America is free.
We Patriots beat the King of England and the Founding Fathers created the most important
document that has kept America free and that was the US Constitution. Throughout my life I have been a free American born American citizen. I owe that privilege and right and honor to every American signer of the US Constitution and every member of the United States Military from the Revolutionary War to today's date
which includes most of my family members.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781503514331

Morgan Maine

I am Morgan Maine, the author. I have enjoyed several years as a stage actor, radio broadcaster and creator of short stories. I have spent a great deal of time flying and I have read the magazines the airlines provided throughout the years. When I began flying there was neither Internet nor eBooks. There are now, which is why I am writing my second book with some new stories and some familiar characters you may remember from the first book. The stories in the book are what I call "friction". They are part fact and part fiction. I always loved "story time" as a child and still do in my later years. I think every story should begin with "Once upon a time...” MORGAN MAINE America Citizen Patriot A portion of the book sales goes to the Wounded Warriors of America with my thanks and gratitude. Morgan Maine This book is a series of short stories meant to entertain the reader like on short flights like from New York to New Jersey.

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Contents

St. Simons Island Ga

St. Simons Island, Brunswick And World War II

When Mules Fly

Leffingwell Lives And Liberty

Colonial Christopher Leffingwell And Fort Ticonderoga

The End Of Camelot

This book is dedicated to My Mother and My Leffingwell family.

WRITTEN BY

MORGAN MAINE

Short stories meant to entertain the reader, like on a flight from New York to New Jersey. These stories are what I call friction. Part fact and part fiction.

Name, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

- Morgan Maine

Lt. Thomas Leffingwell

From England to New England

Thomas Leffingwell came to what would become the United States in 1623 from Croxall Essex England and made his life in Norwich, Connecticut. He befriended Uncas the Chief of the Mohegan's when he saved the tribe from the Narragansett tribe. This is the story of my Leffingwell family and their American military service.

- Morgan Maine

Written by: Morgan Maine

Editor: Yvonne R Shelton

ST. SIMONS ISLAND GA

The United States Navy Hell Cats took off down the runway on St. Simons Island GA into the Second World War. When you visit our beautiful island stop by Malcolm McKinnon Airport and envision the war planes roaring off into the sky.

Their goal is to be certain there are no enemy submarines lurking in the nearby waterways and sea lanes or troop movements by the enemy.

Shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, America had a new enemy knocking on our front door.

It was the Germans and they wanted to scuttle the fleet and our war equipment and supply lines.

America started being attacked by the German U-boats by trying to stop the Liberty Supply Ships, Merchant Marines, oil tankers and our Navy, Marines and Army from getting the troops, supplies and equipment to the wars in the world.

There were so many attacks by enemy subs and U-boats that the Atlantic coastline from New York to Florida was known as The Atlantic Pearl Harbor.

Picture the scene. It is pitch dark, not even the light of the moon. There is a small compliment of men are on board. They are waiting and running in silence. Soon a ship passes getting between the sub and the open sea lane and out into to the open ocean.

The ship sails on and then KAPOW!!!

We trust no one and yet it happens by our enemy. They are the same. We, who war, must stop the enemy at any cost. To end the war. So they do.

St. Simons Island and our perfect and beautiful airstrips, blue skies and ocean were the perfect vacation spot. Who would even consider going to a millionaire’s playground and attacking?

Only the enemy.

Once you fire a weapon you are going to be attacked and sunk.

We don’t take prisoners; we blow the sub out of the ocean!

The Enemy knows once they have been detected they will be killed.

Our war ships, supply ships, warplanes, merchant marine and troops are our defense.

St. Simons Island Georgia has seen the face of war because America, our homeland, our people, our American Freedom are our treasurers and we are worth the fight!

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, BRUNSWICK

AND WORLD WAR II

America had been drawn into battle on many world battle grounds. For America to fight efficiently and effectively, we had to supply our Armed Forces with every imaginable weapon, tool and supply.

Since the United States fought all over the world, we had to bring our massive American military and all the supplies that were terrain and weather appropriate to fight from the jungle, to the Alps, to the desert and on every ocean, river and canal.

The only way we could supply our troops all over the world with the supplies and weapons necessary, was to bring the materials using ships to transport the supplies.

We used Liberty ships to transport everything you need to fight a war from uniforms to weapons to ammunition to bombs, to jeeps, petroleum, trucks, tents that were field hospitals, medicine, food, replacement parts for motors, and surgical operating tools.

When you move millions of soldiers to fight a war, you have to move the instruments and the equipment and weapons you need to fight and to win a war.

St. Simons Island, Ga. was visited by the enemy U-boat who was watching the lit shoreline at night when the Oklahoma tanker was cruising through the waters of St. Simons Island. Ga.

The ship German Captain launched a torpedo which sank the ship. The blast was so powerful it shattered windows in