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<blockquote data-quote="Lammie" data-source="post: 796153" data-attributes="member: 3306"><p>My dad was a non combatant but he could still tell a good story. He crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Mary, which had been refitted as a troop transport. Said that they started out in a convoy and had some sort of mechanical trouble and had to turn back to New York City. He was nervous. They did warm bunking. Slept in shifts. When one man got out of a bed another got in it. He assembled gliders. Each one came in five large wooden crates. Once assembled, them men lived in the crates, joining them together and creating doorways to make rooms. After that, he was part of a unit that would go after battles and recover what they could, sometimes had to re-bury soldiers that were killed. Kinda like battlefield clean-up. Went all the way to Holland like that. Barely missed the Battle of the Bulge. Got sent to Trinidad, thinking that he was going to have to go fight Japanese, but the war ended before that happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lammie, post: 796153, member: 3306"] My dad was a non combatant but he could still tell a good story. He crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Mary, which had been refitted as a troop transport. Said that they started out in a convoy and had some sort of mechanical trouble and had to turn back to New York City. He was nervous. They did warm bunking. Slept in shifts. When one man got out of a bed another got in it. He assembled gliders. Each one came in five large wooden crates. Once assembled, them men lived in the crates, joining them together and creating doorways to make rooms. After that, he was part of a unit that would go after battles and recover what they could, sometimes had to re-bury soldiers that were killed. Kinda like battlefield clean-up. Went all the way to Holland like that. Barely missed the Battle of the Bulge. Got sent to Trinidad, thinking that he was going to have to go fight Japanese, but the war ended before that happened. [/QUOTE]
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