Fort Jackson, SC Summer 1941 by Bob Searl, Sr.(b1917-d2017)

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July 1941

Fort Jackson, SC Summer 1941

Company "A" Gas Mask Drill. A "ragtag" bunch of recently drafted NY/NJ Citizen soldiers going through the adaption phase to military life...A far different well trained group they were when the Initial Assault beachead landings were made in June 1944 at Normandy, France just a few short years away.

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PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: "FROM THE PERSONAL ARCHIVES OF U.S. ARMY WWII VETERAN ROBERT H. SEARL, 56TH SIGNAL BATTALION"

Bill Best		15-Jan-2011 17:44
Shades of "Tank Hill"! Trained at Fort Jackson, the spring of 1954, thirteen years later. Not much had changed, sand, sand, and more sand.

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