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• Text: ...s pictures from England and discusses them in depth during the war and afterwards. Further shows pictures of her forays into Scotland. (34:27)  Briefly tells a few stories along with showing her Scotland pictures also. (36:54)  Also shows a certificate service in which re...

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• Text: ...ed on the Philadelphia. (5:09) The Philadelphia was a light cruiser. (5:20) This ship would make runs from the East Coast to Scotland on convoy escort. (5:44) While in the North Atlantic he experienced rough seas. (6:00) The ships he escorted would travel in the far North Atlantic because G...

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• Description: ...er, but his ship was sunk by a torpedo, and he was rescued by a British destroyer. He then spent time on a US Marine base in Scotland, Oran, Algeria, on an oil tanker In the Caribbean and Atlantic, a tugboat in the Caribbean, and finally on a cargo ship in the Pacific after the end of the w...
• Text: ...use of the weather o One of the lifeboats was lost  (30:28) They didn’t have any U-boat scares on the way to Halifax or Scotland o Remembers the ocean being beautiful o (31:12) Mr. Aldrich remembered on the way to the British Isles the fog prevented them from seeing things, and once it...

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• Text: ...They ran into some German submarines off of the coast of New York, and so they diverted to Scotland and then eventually to England. o (0:02:40) He was part of the attack on D-Day.  Recalls an episode off of the coast of France where his boat had to rescue another destroyer off of the coa...

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• Text: ...in the city -He enjoyed getting to see the sights of downtown New York -From New York they boarded a troopship and sailed to Scotland -It was a rough voyage -A lot of the men onboard got viciously seasick -He was able to avoid getting seasick (00:18:55) Arrival and Training in England -They...

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• Text: ...   Philip first served aboard the USS George Bancroft. This ship was a missile submarine. The ship operated out of Scotland. (4:49) Typically the men were out at sea for 65-70 days. (5:06) After his service on the USS George Bancroft, Philip reenlisted and was sent to a training c...

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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.