Posted by donjr on November 08, 2017 at 11:16:38 from (96.234.166.134):
In Reply to: Operation Torch 11/8/42 posted by Ultradog MN on November 08, 2017 at 03:28:47:
Dad was a bit involved in North Africa. Having been in the NG on Pearl Harbor day, his status changed from USAR to regular Army. They didn't waste a lot of time shipping out- he was a Combat Engineer and landed on a small island in the middle of the Atlantic in March of 1942. They then cut the tops off two mountains and filled the valley in between. Ascension Island now became an airbase. We then put belly tanks on fighter aircraft and flew them to Brazil, then to Ascension, then on to a new airbase they built in the Belgian Congo. The aircraft then flew to the North African front to the next field they built. The Germans didn't know about Ascension until it was too late and we were flying planes to the front through a back door. Pop got shot in the hand in North Africa and was sent home and made a 90 day wonder in 1943, sent back to England in May of 1944 and landed on Omaha beach two weeks later. When VE day came, they started to get ready to be shipped to Saipan for the Japanese invasion, but VJ day came before they left Europe. Even with all the bungling, they managed to do pretty good.....
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