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• Description: ... in Fowler, Michigan and was drafted into the Army Air Corps on February 12, 1942. Bruce served as a medic. He was sent to Scotland during the war and helped coordinate flights home for wounded troops. He also spent some time in France and Poland. Bruce was discharged in 1946, and moved...
• Text: They assisted the flights going out. (1:07:54) Bruce was in Scotland for over a year and was in France for his month in Europe. He was never able to take leave or liberty. (1:09:05) When he went to Poland, he was there for about two months after VE-Day.

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• Description: The program ended in 1944, and he was assigned to a turret gun in a B-17 and shipped overseas to Scotland to fly bombing missions into Germany.
• Text: ... to cross by ship in late 1944 (29:45) Not too many Air Corpsmen on the ship, mostly Army troops (30:15) Took trains through Scotland, stopped at a base (30:45) Relieved a depleted squadron (31:20) Still trained for several weeks while there (32:15) Flew with the 13th Wing (36 planes) (33:0...

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• Text: ... of a convoy, and they didn‟t see any U-boats, but he knew they were out there. (25:22) The first place they landed was in Scotland. That is where he got his first taste of the English language. After landing in Scotland, they took a train to their base that was thirty miles from...

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• Text: ...he C-46 or C-47 (31:22). (31:30) Active Duty Europe  From Camp Kilmer in New Jersey he boarded a passenger ship bound for Scotland. The trip lasted 7 days and was initially rough (31:48).  Many men became seasick (33:06).  The camp in Scotland was crude, wet, and muddy. Th...

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• Text: ...l from the United States to the English Isles -Moved quickly because they didn’t travel with an escort -Landed in Glasgow, Scotland -Started to get organized and prepared to set up in England -Remembers doing kitchen duty on the ship and plucking feathers off of chickens -Remembers a sold...

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• Text: ...Many men were sick. (13:41) The convoy sailed for 11 days. It stormed for all 11. (15:07) The convoy landed in Greenoch, Scotland. (16:40) Keith was then sent to England. There the men had to build their own startle trenches, and get their own water. The men lived in tents. (17:27) He was a...

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• Text: ...And one of the closest friends I had there was from New York, but his father was Scottish, so he wanted to go up to Scotland to see where his father was born and raised, so I went with him. 12:08 I’m not sure how long we were gone, but we were gone and then we went to, also in Scotlan...