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• Text: ...he Grand Banks -Had a picket station called GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom) above the Arctic Circle -Worked out of Scotland -On that station for 30 to 45 days at a time -Visited Germany, Denmark, and Sweden -Treated well by the people in those countries -First American ship that t...

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• Text: ... so crowded they had to take turns getting into bed. They had two meals a day on the ship. They arriveded in Firth of Clyde, Scotland. • (30:34) Next they took a train to a small village outside London. The pilots were to be replacements. During this time, the Battle of the Bulge was ragi...

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• Text: ...nd and their currency -Had escorts to a certain point then sailed alone (00:32:58) Stationed in England -Arrived in Glasgow, Scotland then took a smaller boat to Liverpool, England -Sent to Wiltshire County, England where the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment had its camps -Part of the 101s...

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• Text: ...meals a day -Had liver and onions for breakfast -Evening meal was better (00:24:40) Stationed in England -Landed at Glasgow, Scotland in mid-January 1944 -Got off the ship and took a train toward London -Greeted by the elite Coldstream Guards -Couldn't keep up with them -Went to Henley...

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• Text: I bet they didn’t pull that one on you a second time. No….no. (19:41) Then from there I went to Scotland and then they sent us for further training….well mostly the crew went for more training. So what unit were you assigned to ultimately? The 487th Bomb Group…336 Bomb Squadron.

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• Text: ...In other words, you get there…Was this the first time you met Scottish people or British people? We arrived in Scotland I think in the middle of the night, so and we were in Class A uniforms which means that we had short skirts, fairly short for that time, and not much protection so we we...

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• Text: It’s very expensive to own a car over there, so they make them last. He really wanted to spend some time touring Ireland and Scotland, but he didn’t have the time. When he was in Portland, he used to ride up with some of the men driving the WWII transports.

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• Text: ...estover -First stop was Newfoundland, Canada (00:25:34) Flying Missions Pt. 1 -Flew from Canada to Greenland, to Iceland, to Scotland, then down to England -Destination was a 44th Bombardment Group base -Flew seven (or eight) missions out of that base -The 392nd Bomb Group was almost entire...

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• Text: ...vy was around not too far from us all the time. Interviewer: Okay, so you had escorts of some kind. Yes, oh yeah and we went Scotland first and then we got a train from Scotland and- and guys went in different directions and I went to Wales. Interviewer: Okay. Yeah. Interviewer: Ye...

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• Text: ...   From Iceland he went to Belfast, Northern Ireland for a couple of days. From there he would get on a boat to go to Scotland and from there, he would take a train to Snetterton Heath. He would join the 338th Squadron 96th Bomb Group. The group would spend 2 years overseas and 200 m...

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• Text: ...nt to New York City which was, never been there before, that was an experience, and from New York City we went to Edinburgh, Scotland. As a- a, with my Scots background, that was an exciting experience and I remember walking around Edinburgh and- and getting acquainted with the tartans and ...

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• Text: THE 120 FOOT E BOATS WERE FAST AND HEAVLY ARMED . RETURN TO ENGLAND AND SOME OF THE BOATS WENT TO SCOTLAND TO BE GIVEN TO THE RUSSIANS. SHW TO BOSTON, TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA AND THE SHOEMAKER NAVL RECEIVING STATION. PASSED OUT AND ENDED UP IN THE SHOEMAKER NAVAL HOSPITAL.