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• Text: ..., you know, I was only eighteen, and she started handing us all these little booklets, I‘ll never forget it, ―Welcome to Scotland‖. So I got aboard the train and we‘re all reading the book about Scotland and I was looking out the window, a beautiful place. The train kept go...

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• Text: ...s too weak to carry his combat pack and rifle (00:42:28:00)  Therefore, when the ship pulled into the harbor in Greenock, Scotland, Van Luyn was very relieved (00:42:38:00) The men were not in Scotland for very long; after they had gotten off the ship, the men were given coffee ...

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• Text: ...ield unit, we were not a field unit instead, well we did what I did, I had twenty six people that worked for me and England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and they, they, twenty six people to, two civilians and I had two veterinarians that worked for me, part of the problem wa...

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• Text: ...nders were friendly and hospitable (01:27:58) Convoy AT-18 -Sailed to England with a large convoy, AT-18, bound for Glasgow, Scotland -First major movement of American troops to England for service in the European Theater -Stopped in Belfast, Ireland -Pulled into Glasgow -A lot of Free Fren...

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• Text: ... (00:58:26:00) o During the voyage to the Pacific, the men did not encounter as much bad weather as they had sailing over to Scotland (00:58:52:00) When the General Pope finally arrived at Manila, it was a different experience for the men (00:59:50:00) o Although the men had been through se...

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• Text: ...Everyone on the ship was sick. He was in a convoy of eighty ships 46:03 He was sitting outside of Scotland the nets were holding the ships back because of the submarines 48:00 He got there in 1944 48:43 He describes his captain he says that he was the dumbest person he knew 49:45 His captai...

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• Text: And then do you know, do you remember where you landed in Britain? Did you land up in Scotland? Or did you land in the south— Veteran: In England. Interviewer: In England. Veteran: Uffcott, England. Interviewer: Okay. And what happens after you get there? Do you go to a camp or…?

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• Text: ...Salisbury Plain, which is actually the least productive part of England. It was interesting—I take that back, we landed in Scotland. We went by train to England. Interviewer: A lot of people landed in Glasgow, which was the main point of deportation. Now, at this point was your division n...

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• Text: ...eployment to India (00:29:01:00)  To get to their new assignment, the men sailed on a converted sea liner, the Empress of Scotland (00:29:01:00) o Pahl was stationed in a former card-room with thirty-two other officers; the bunks were stacked six high and the fellow on the top bunk, to s...

Francisco Vega was born in San Antonio, Texas. He tried to enlist in the military immediately after Pearl Harbor, but was initially rejected because of his Mexican ancestry. He eventually did enlist in the Army Air Corps, and began a long process in which he used his talents and persuasive skills to find increasingly interesting assignments, eventually training as a teletype operator with a signals unit that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and was eventually part of Eisenhower's headquarters.

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• Text: ... (1:40:58) Well, first of all, where did you arrive in England and two, what were your accommodations? Well, we arrived in Scotland actually, and then they put us on the train down to England and we were near the town of Newberry. It was actually called the Craven Estate...Lady Craven and ...

Jim Southerland was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1946 and graduated high school in 1966. He joined the Army on May 19th, 1965. Southerland completed his Basic Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and then advanced infantry training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. At Fort Benning, Georgia, he also completed jump school. His first deployment was to Germany where he took part in the Nijmegen March in Holland. After reenlisting, Southerland was deployed to Vietnam with the 1st Brigade, 1st Calvary Division as an RTO (radiotelephone operator) for his platoon leader and eventually became a squad leader. He was involved in the Tet Offensive in early 1968 before his last assignment as an MOS personnel specialist in Saigon. Southerland left Vietnam in April, 1969, and left the service in May, 1969, but remained active in the Virginia National Guard.