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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: ...They ran into some German submarines off of the coast of New York, and so they diverted to Scotland and then eventually to England. o (0:02:40) He was part of the attack on D-Day.  Recalls an episode off of the coast of France where his boat had to rescue another destroyer off of the coa...

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• Text: ...in the city -He enjoyed getting to see the sights of downtown New York -From New York they boarded a troopship and sailed to Scotland -It was a rough voyage -A lot of the men onboard got viciously seasick -He was able to avoid getting seasick (00:18:55) Arrival and Training in England -They...

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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...