January 1945
What happened as a volunteer with the paratroopers is unclear. As the Army reshuffled men to meet the desperate demands of the European theater, Dad ends up in a major troop deployment sometime in January, crossing the Atlantic and drawing assignment to the Fourth Armored Division. "Gen. Patton's Finest."
1945
Jan - Mar
Chapter 2
Journey into the ETO
From his letter, May 23, 1945, after censorship rules had been relaxed.
"I sailed from New York
harbor on the Queen Elizabeth."
harbor on the Queen Elizabeth."
"We zig-zagged our way across the Atlantic without convoy until one morning I came on deck bright & early and there off on the horizon was a purple haze which I knew right away was land.
It didn't take long for the land to sort of sneak up and surround us on all
sides for before I knew it I was gazing at the hills of Scotland."
It didn't take long for the land to sort of sneak up and surround us on all
sides for before I knew it I was gazing at the hills of Scotland."
