USS Florence Nightingale AP 70 (navsource.org)
Letter from a WWII Group
George Swarts
February 2005
I started out in the scouts and raiders in 1942. After North Africa. I went abroad The USS Florence Nightingale AP 70. Stayed aboard her for 22 months. Making the invasion of Siscly, Selnora, Point De Lac, and Southern France.
Regarding Class Trip
Hi!
I really enjoyed reading about your trip to DC and the Marine Memorial. I am a WWII veteran and I hope you and your students got a chance to visit the WWII Memorial. The WWII Memorial is not a veterans memorial, it is a monument to all those people that made victory possible. This includes the defense workers and the people at home that did so much to help us win a hard fought victory.
What is the WWII "Lame Duck Award"?
Is that something to do with the Honorable Discharge Award?
hoffcarl,
Marion.
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Marion,
The honorable discharge is a "ruptured" duck if I'm not mistaken.
Rusty
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Rusty is right
Letters from March 2004
USS Comfort
From Thomas Dwayne Atkins
I served on USS Comfort AH6 at the time of the suicide plane hit.
I was EM/2c at the time of my departure from the ship.
There is one other member of my group that I am in touch with by e mail and and have visited at his home in Oregon.
Information provided by: The Navy Historical Center
During the 1920s, several World War I "Bird" type minesweepers (AM) were assigned the mission of caring for the Navy's numerous seaplanes. They retained their AM series hull numbers for many years, but in January 1936 nine "Bird-Boats" were redesignated Small Seaplane Tenders and given new hull numbers ranging from AVP-1 through AVP-9.
Reenactment of the Battle of Resaca
Annual Observance
Third Weekend in May
On the actual battle site in Resaca, GA
Saturday and Sunday
This is a copy of a correspondence from Milton Long to FTW:
The Cook and Bakers School was at Post Headquarters Area. This was called the “Armored Forces School.” It included Signal, Mechanics, and other support training. I worked with Lt. John Harley who was in charge of the Motorcycle School.
When I was at Post HQ I would eat in the enlisted students mess. They used the students from the Cook and Bakers School to work in this mess as on the job training.
I had the privilege of speaking personally to General Patton twice. The first time was on a beach, Nov. 1942, just north of Casa Blanca. There were two others besides myself. The General came up to us, asked where we were from. Told us to be very careful and just make the enemy suffer.
Copyright: Bill Hawksford
In 1948, much to Billy’s consternation, he was wasting away his valuable young life performing dull uninteresting menial tasks at Catterick camp in Yorkshire.
Copyright: Bill Hawksford.
In 1948 there was a shortage of troop ships, and the soldiers in Egypt became aware that their National Service would be extended for a period of time. As a result Billy endured an additional 6 months in the desert counting the days until he was in civvy street and no longer playing silly buggers in the army.