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- Text: The ship anchored off of Scotland and had to take smaller boats to get to shore because the ship was so huge. They couldn’t go straight to the English Channel because the Germans would have sunk them He was then sent by train to Liverpool.
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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: ...c Ocean -Weather wasn't too bad -Some men got seasick (00:22:14) Arrival in the European Theatre -Arrived in Glasgow, Scotland -Went by train to Southampton, England -Boarded a ship and was given a loaf of bread and a ring of bologna -It was a small transport ship -Had to sleep in ha...
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- Text: The ship changed direction every seven minutes as well. • (17:25) They landed in Glasgow, Scotland. They were sent by a train to Elfricone, England, near the southern coast. • (18:00) They were trained for D-Day and trained in LCVPs, a type of small landing craft.
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- Text: ...ismay of the others, that soldier answered "Oh yes sir." (28:40:00) they were worried about U-Boats but made it to Scotland safely, to Greenock in the north near Glasgow; he was put on an LST ship and sent to Cardiff, in Wales, for a couple of weeks; Cardiff had “the worst clima...
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- Text: ...y crowded -Led to not having much to do in the way of occupying time (00:26:21) Arrival in England -Ship stopped at Glasgow, Scotland -Did not disembark there and instead boarded a ferry bound for Liverpool, England -From Liverpool got sent to Birmingham -By now D-Day was well underway -In ...
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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: ... so crowded they had to take turns getting into bed. They had two meals a day on the ship. They arriveded in Firth of Clyde, Scotland. • (30:34) Next they took a train to a small village outside London. The pilots were to be replacements. During this time, the Battle of the Bulge was ragi...
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- Text: ...nd and their currency -Had escorts to a certain point then sailed alone (00:32:58) Stationed in England -Arrived in Glasgow, Scotland then took a smaller boat to Liverpool, England -Sent to Wiltshire County, England where the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment had its camps -Part of the 101s...
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- Text: ...meals a day -Had liver and onions for breakfast -Evening meal was better (00:24:40) Stationed in England -Landed at Glasgow, Scotland in mid-January 1944 -Got off the ship and took a train toward London -Greeted by the elite Coldstream Guards -Couldn't keep up with them -Went to Henley...
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- Text: I bet they didn’t pull that one on you a second time. No….no. (19:41) Then from there I went to Scotland and then they sent us for further training….well mostly the crew went for more training. So what unit were you assigned to ultimately? The 487th Bomb Group…336 Bomb Squadron.
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- Text: ...In other words, you get there…Was this the first time you met Scottish people or British people? We arrived in Scotland I think in the middle of the night, so and we were in Class A uniforms which means that we had short skirts, fairly short for that time, and not much protection so we we...