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Show ROBERT THAYER MB R 2002 feelings for those kids that flew those planes, I'll tell you. But anyhow we 1 ft Pu blo Colorado, and we went to Camp Kilmer. The aircrews flew over to England. But we went over on the Queen Elizabeth, all of the ground forces. There were sixteen thousand men on board that ship when we left New York Harbor, and we took seven days-six or seven days. We had no escort, and at that time the U-boats were really knocking a lot of ships down. But the Elizabeth and the Mary were fast enough that they couldn't keep any escorts with them. So they would just go, and I can remember standing out on the back of the ship on the way over and watching the wake. And we would go, oh, so long in one direction and then we'd zig. We didn't follow a straight course. They had it figured out that if they changed directions every so often that the U-boats couldn't lay in wait for them. So we never had any problem at all. We docked in Scotland early one morningnever forget that. It was real early in the morning and the dew was all over this beautiful harbor, and I can remember it was just loaded with all military ships. I was standing out on the deck looking at it, thinking how beautiful it was, most all of it was British-British flags all over. And a submarine come in the harbor, and you could see the tower, it was above the water, and finally it came out and surfaced almost parallel to where we were docked, and an American flag went up and I thought, Oh, isn't that great! It was quite sight. BEC: ROB: here. BEC: ROB: A stirring sight. Yeah, because it just made you feel like, Well, we're not alone over Sixteen thousand men? Sixteen thousand. 16 |
