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ITINERARIES of Overseas Trips of the 475th MPEG Co.
(from Charlie Slakter including his personal trips)
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19 June, Monday, 2:30 p.m.
20 June, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m.
23 June, Friday, 1:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
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24 June, Saturday, 10:00a.m.
.4 July, Tuesday, 11:00
p.m.
5 July, Wednesday, 1:00 p.m.
about 3:30 p.m.
about 4:30 p.m.
6 July, Thursday, 6:00 a.m.
12 July, Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.
5:00 p.m.
16 July, Sunday
23 July, Sunday
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30 July, Sunday
6 August, Sunday
8 August, Tuesday, 10:30 a.m.
3:00 p.m.
9 August, Wednesday, 3:30 p.m.
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20 August, Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
21 August, Monday, 10:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
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...Left Fort Custer by train,
headed for the East Coast.
...Arrived Camp Shanks,
N.Y.
...Left Camp Shanks for
N.Y. City.
...Arrived Pier 86 in N.Y.
City by river steamer and
...boarded
H.M.S. Eastern
Prince.
...Left N.Y. in convoy of
30-some ships, 2000 miscellaneous troops aboard.
...Arrived Firth of Clyde,
off Grenock, Scotland.
...Disembarked to harbor
steamer.
...Landed at Grenock station.
...Boarded L.M.S. Rwy. Train
for Bristol, England.
...Arrived in Bristol and
then to Tyntesfield near Failand.
...Left Bristol for Bury,
Lancs..
...Arrived Bury, marched
to Pilsworth Bleach Works, about three miles.
...Visited Leeds.
...Maneuvers with British
Home Guard [and Royal Pay Corps]
...Invaded Bury, capturing
Knowsley Street Station against 600 men.
...Visited Morecombe.
...Visited Liverpool.
...Left Pilsworth and Bury
for Liverpool.
...Boarded U.S.A.T. George
Washington.
...Left Liverpool in convoy
of 36 ships for the States,
...3000 German Prisoners
aboard.
...Arrived N.Y. City.
Not permitted to leave ship.
...Disembarked at Pier 84.
...Arrived Camp Shanks,
N.Y.
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Second Trip (1944).
27 August, Sunday, 8:30 p.m.
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28 August, Monday, 1:30 p.m.
3 September, Sunday, 9:30 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
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4 September, Monday, 9:00 a.m.
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7 September, Thursday, 3:00 p.m.
10:00 p.m.
10 September, Sunday
11 September, Monday
about 12:30 a.m.
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25 September, Monday, 10:00 a.m.
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27 September, Wed., 12 noon
8 October, Sunday, p.m.
9 October, Monday
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...Left Camp Shanks, N.Y.
for Weehawken, N.J. by train.
...Ferry to Pier 90 and
boarded Queen Elizabeth at 11:30 p.m.
...Left N.Y. on Queen
Elizabeth with 15,000 troops aboard.
...Arrived Firth of Clyde,
Scotland.
...Disembarked at Gourock.
...Left for Edinburgh, New
Castle, and Moreton-in-Marsh,
...NW of Oxford and 15 miles
south of Stratford-upon-Avon.
...Arrived at Moreton-in-Marsh
and boarded busses for
...P.W. Enclosure #1 [at
Spring Hill, Bourton-on-the-Hill].
...Left Moreton-in-Marsh
by train.
...Arrived Eastleigh near
Southampton.
...Left camp for L.C.I.
#537 in Southampton.
...L.C.I.
was beached after about six attempts and
...we unloaded. Marched
most of the night to [an orchard] near
...Foulerville where we
bivouacked, sleeping for a few hours.
...Moved by truck to [P.W.E..#10
near] Cherbourg
...via Montebourg and Valognes.
...[Half the company] Boarded
M.S.
John Erickson, formerly Kungsholm,
...at Cherbourg. {The other
half boarded the U.S.A.T. Brazil.]
...Left Cherbourg with 250
casualties and 125 German non-coms.
...Arrived N.Y. harbor.
...Arrived Camp Shanks,
N.Y.
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Third Trip (1944-1945)
21 October, Saturday
22 October, Sunday
2 November, Saturday
3 November, Friday
13 November, Monday
21 November, Tuesday
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9 December, Saturday
10 January, Wednesday
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21 January, Sunday
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...Left Camp Shanks for
New York. Boarded U.S.A.T. Thomas A. Barry.
...Left N.Y. in convoy.
...Arrived in Southampton,
England.
...Arrived in Cuddington
and Camp Delamere Park.
...Left Cuddington for Moreton-in-Marsh
and P.W.E.#1.
...[Part of Company]Left
Moreton-inMarsh for Sherbarae
...and 110th
Station Hospital, Netley.
...[Detachment]Left Netley
for P.W.E.#1.
...Left P.W.E.#1 for Southampton.
...Left Southampton aboard
U.S.S.
General Brooke.
...Arrived N.Y. [Permanently
Assigned to the Zone of the Interior]
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