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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: ...   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: ...gar and now a museum ship -Took a tour of the ship -Took a three-day tour of London -Saw Piccadilly Circus, Nelson Monument, Scotland Yard, Buckingham Palace, St. James Park -Fascinating to finally see the places he’d read about in history and literature -Rode on London’s subway syste...

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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: 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.

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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...