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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...

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• Text: ...estover -First stop was Newfoundland, Canada (00:25:34) Flying Missions Pt. 1 -Flew from Canada to Greenland, to Iceland, to Scotland, then down to England -Destination was a 44th Bombardment Group base -Flew seven (or eight) missions out of that base -The 392nd Bomb Group was almost entire...

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• Text: ...vy was around not too far from us all the time. Interviewer: Okay, so you had escorts of some kind. Yes, oh yeah and we went Scotland first and then we got a train from Scotland and- and guys went in different directions and I went to Wales. Interviewer: Okay. Yeah. Interviewer: Ye...

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• Text: ...   From Iceland he went to Belfast, Northern Ireland for a couple of days. From there he would get on a boat to go to Scotland and from there, he would take a train to Snetterton Heath. He would join the 338th Squadron 96th Bomb Group. The group would spend 2 years overseas and 200 m...

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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: ..., you know, I was only eighteen, and she started handing us all these little booklets, I‘ll never forget it, ―Welcome to Scotland‖. So I got aboard the train and we‘re all reading the book about Scotland and I was looking out the window, a beautiful place. The train kept go...

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• Text: ...s too weak to carry his combat pack and rifle (00:42:28:00)  Therefore, when the ship pulled into the harbor in Greenock, Scotland, Van Luyn was very relieved (00:42:38:00) The men were not in Scotland for very long; after they had gotten off the ship, the men were given coffee ...

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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...

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• Text: ... (00:58:26:00) o During the voyage to the Pacific, the men did not encounter as much bad weather as they had sailing over to Scotland (00:58:52:00) When the General Pope finally arrived at Manila, it was a different experience for the men (00:59:50:00) o Although the men had been through se...

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• Text: ...Everyone on the ship was sick. He was in a convoy of eighty ships 46:03 He was sitting outside of Scotland the nets were holding the ships back because of the submarines 48:00 He got there in 1944 48:43 He describes his captain he says that he was the dumbest person he knew 49:45 His captai...