--------------------------------------------------------------- The following message was sent to you via AVO Web Email System: --------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Ruth (Drewes) Howell Email Address: rehdancer@gmail.com Subject: Mt. Cleveland eruption June 1944 Message: Just read your article re: this eruption. My father, Donald W. Drewes, was the captain for this weather station and Sgt Purchase was a member of the weather team under his command. He told us about searching for Sgt Purchase by traveling by boat around the island, with huge boulders being spewed from the volcano and landing in the water around the boat, while others searched the land. Many of the boulders, as stated in your article, were the size of cars, some larger. I try to imagine what that must have been like, trying to dodge those boulders and knowing my dad couldn't swim He said the letter he had to write to Sgt. Purchase's family was one of the most difficult things he'd ever done. ---------------------------------------------------------------- REMOTE IP ADDRESS: 185.197.192.233 USER AGENT/BROWSER: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 REFERRING PAGE: https://avo.alaska.edu/contact.php