Re: Armed Guard questions
Ron, I started out in Armed Guard School in Gulf Port, Miss, upon Graduation was assigned to New Orleans and recieved my first assingment to a ship in Georgia, I was only on that ship a few weeks due to illness, then was assigned to Brooklyn. Caught my first ship there and made a trip to England, returned to Brooklyn, and got a 4 day week-end pass, I went home on it to Wi. I stayed on the same ship and we had a voyage to Scotland, came back to Booklyn and got a 1o leave, and were told to tell our parents they wouldn't hear from us for up to 6 months, we knew we were on our way to Murmansk, when we returned we were given a 2 week leave. On returning to the Brooklyn I was assigned to a Troop transport. One trip with soldiers to France, and back to Brooklyn loaded up another 10000 troops and went to Italy,the War was over on the way to Italy so after spending 3 weeks in Naples Italy, we were ordered to the Phillipines, the war was over in Japan as we pulled into the harbor in Northern Phillipines, headed for home and pulled into New Orleans where the ship was dismantled. When I was attached to Brooklyn, we spent most of our free time on Liberty in NY. we had to stand watches on the ship at different times. Also were taken to a Gunnery range on Long Island where we praticed with the 20 Millimeter. I loved going to England and Scotland. Beautiful country and the people were really good to us. Regards. Gerry Burr
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