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- Text: ... Elizabeth • The ship rode alone, without a convoy. • The trip to England took seven days. • Early 1943. • Landed in Scotland. (19:10) Scotland and England • Landed in Scotland in a railroad yard in early 1943. • Took train all night and stopped at Kings Cliff,...
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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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- Text: ...mp closer to the coast In Virginia a couple of days for shots, sent to Maryland Boarded a ship to be transferred overseas to Scotland Ship called the Aquitania (a cruise ship converted into a transport) Landed in Scotland; ship was able to outrun U-boats, so no convoy Would often w...
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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: ...n a large convoy • The converted freighter broke down and they lost the convoy for a while • They landed at Glasgow, Scotland and then went to England with a B-25 group • His job was to write a report for every mission • They lost a lot of planes in the beginning • He we...
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- Text: ...tic, and found German subs waiting for them (09:20) • Had to change course and took them several days extra, and landed in Scotland instead of Southampton, England (09:50) • Took a train to England (10:00) • Spent 2 weeks in England, waiting to embark across the Channel (10:30) • Go...
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- Description: ...Military Police training at Fort Custer and Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He was sent to the European Theatre and arrived in Scotland on November 9, 1944. He was stationed in Hereford, England with the Military Police for the rest of 1944 and was sent to France in late January 1945 as an in...
- Text: ...up to Camp Shanks, New York -Boarded a troopship, the SS Ile de France -It took nine days to sail from New York to Greenock, Scotland -In Greenock they boarded a train and were taken to Hereford, England -By the time he got to England D-Day had already happened (00:12:34) Arrival in France ...
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- Text: ...ary of 1944 (27:45) Overseas • • • • • Jay crossed the North Atlantic in very cold weather headed for Greenock, Scotland There was 10,000 men on the ship and most of them were in the Army They were only allowed on the deck once a day for some fresh air They disembarked in S...
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- Text: ...sixteen weeks in basic training before he was sent over seas. (04:03) Deployment/Active Duty (00:04:14) • Set out for Scotland on the Queen Elizabeth o Was basically a giant floating hotel • The ship did not travel in a convoy because it was fast enough to where it could avoid the ...
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- Text: ...around 18 months. (04:55) He was then sent to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to specialized training for 6 weeks and was then sent to Scotland and then on to England. While in England, he spent more time training. A lot of their training dealt with mines, specifically clearing the mines. They also s...
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- Text: ...around 18 months. (04:55) He was then sent to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to specialized training for 6 weeks and was then sent to Scotland and then on to England. While in England, he spent more time training. A lot of their training dealt with mines, specifically clearing the mines. They also s...
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- Description: ...he USS Joseph Dickman as an electrician's apprentice. While on the Dickman, he traveled to Africa, Australia, Italy and Scotland. His ship participated in the invasions of North Africa and Sicily. Edwin was discharged as an Electrician's Mate, First Class on May 22nd, 1945....
- Text: ...ught supplies to Naples and landed troops at Salerno (1:06:45) Post-USS Dickman o Left the Mediterranean Sea, took troops to Scotland, preparing for D-Day (1:12:00) o Left the USS Dickman in 1944 and was transferred to the Tamarack out of Manitowoc, WI (1:15:00) o Stayed on the Tamarack for...
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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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- Description: ...d was assigned to the engineer battalion of the 1st Armored Division. He went with his unit to Northern Ireland, and then to Scotland and England before landing in Algeria in 1942. He participated in the North African and Italian campaigns, mostly working on bridge construction and repair, ...
- Text: ...e boarded the HMS Queen Mary (32:42) The rooms aboard the ship were extremely small Active Duty – Part I – Ireland/Scotland/England – (33:18) They traveled North and went towards Iceland (33:25) o They were first let out on the deck at night when they were ...
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- Text: ...Stafford • They made friends with some of the locals and Ernest was invited to a wedding ceremony • He was able to go to Scotland on leave for 3 days (50:45) Showing of Pictures ...
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- Text: ...He mentions that the ship carried general cargo. (07:45) •From Halifax they went to Scotland where they joined up with another convoy of ships and from there went down to Island of Skye and back down to London, England. (08:10) •Astrauckas makes mention of a sailor named Emmanuel who gi...
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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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- Description: ...He trained as a fuel truck driver and received amphibious training. He began duty in Scotland and Wales prior to the Normandy Invasion, and continued to serve as a truck driver in France and Germany during and after the Invasion. After the German surrender, he spent his last months working...
- Text: ...He didn't hear the scrape, and didn't see evidence of it. (22:50) • The ship was bound for Glasgow, Scotland. They took the long way around to avoid U-boats. (23:27) • The convoy was large and involved about twenty ships. (23:54) • The weather was cold, but the sea was proba...
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- Text: ...• George only saw elderly civilians still living in the towns • He ended up in England and then was flown to Glasgow, Scotland • George took a ship called the Queen Mary to New York • He received a Purple Heart, a Sharpshooter’s Badge, a WWII victory medal and a Presidentia...
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- Text: ...� (7:35-7:53) The convoy was not attacked during his first voyage but when he went to Russia, one went up the Clyde River in Scotland and sank a ship at 8 in the morning • (7:53-8:15) Casey always chose the 4 to 8 watch because then he didn’t have to work (chip decks, paint etc) because...
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- Text: ... he went over on was the “Empress of Russia” -Dirty and cramped vessel -Eventually made landfall in a town near Glasgow, Scotland -Voyage took one hundred days [?] due to having to avoid U-Boats and German air raids (00:14:35) Deployment to Northern Ireland -Went to a place near Belfa...
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- Text: ...e headquartered in a town called Straubing, Bavaria. (00:12:06) o Remembers the midnight he left from New York to Edinburgh, Scotland, in the Queen Elizabeth (33 knots, 3 ½ days) when leaving for the war; remembers coming back to New York, as well. After the Service (00:13:28) Going Ho...
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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...