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The USS Comfort

By Mary Lewis nee Smith

I became a RN from the Oklahoma General Hospital (later Mercy). and joined the AMC, ( Army Medical Corps) in 1945, then served in the South Pacific.

When I went over to the Philippines. I was on a ship called “Comfort". The ship was late in picking me up. When I got on board. I talked with a man who had already been on the ship and found out the reason they were late was because they had been hit by a Japanese Suicide Plane.

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Thoughts of D-Day

Written by FTW

My father was a WWII vet that ended up having to wear metal braces on both legs, from his ankles to his hips, as a result of getting hit by shrapnel from artillery during the war.

Unfortunately, from the time I could talk, until I turned 18, I never had a chance to see or speak with my father, so I was not able to learn much about his war experiences.

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A Call to Arms

The second time I ever flew in an airplane, I jumped out of it. I was a 25-year-old surgical intern when World War II broke out; convinced that there would be more romance in Europe than in the Pacific theater, I volunteered as a battalion surgeon to join parachute regiment 506 of the 101st Airborne Division, also known as the "Screaming Eagles." From D-Day, to the invasion of Holland, to the Battle of the Bulge, I learned firsthand what it means not just to treat casualties of war, but also to become one.

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D-Day

D-Day

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B-17

The ball turret of the B-17 Flighing Fortress.

Due of the size of the ball turret, the gunners best suited to take the position were typically the smallest airmen in a crew; taller individuals would have struggled in the cramped, tiny spaces. The gunner would wear a flak jacket and an electrically-heated flight suit.

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Cigarettes

Does anyone out there flip one cigarette in the pack? You may be following a GI tradition.

Whenever the troops sent to Europe or the Pacific would light up, they would flip all of the cigarettes inside the pack except for one. This is so that the brand stamp on the cigarette butt would not tell the enemy the country of origin of the smoker as it was burnt first. As for the last unflipped one, well, if you lived long enough to smoke your way through an entire pack, that last cigarette was your lucky one.

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Wartime Comments from February 2003

Navy Patch

James Bullington

Does anyone know what the insignia in the shape of a book stands for on a Navy Uniform?

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Gen. Patton

Tom Mlinar

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Union Army

A Union Army band on Lookout Mountain, TN, 1864 during the Civil War.

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Military Dog

Honouring WWI Mascot Dog Stubby, 1916 - 1926

Sergeant Stubby was an American dog who served as the mascot of America’s 102nd Infantry Regiment during the First World War.

Stubby was stowed away on a ship to France by a young soldier called Robert Conroy and went on to participate in four offensives and 17 battles.

Lest we forget

Thanks to Kingdom of Doggo

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I was with Patton in Sicily in July 1943. We landed at Gela, and started due north. We went through many small villages. They were making tomato paste. The crushed tomatoes were placed on boards in front of the houses, in the steaming, hot sun.. Also, in the very hot weather, were millions of flies all over the crushed tomatoes. Enjoy your spaghetti and meat balls. Hot dogs tomorrow for sure.

Bernie

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