Post by connie on Mar 28, 2009 11:39:46 GMT -5
DATES: October 17-22
ROUTE: from NY, NY - Gourock (?) Scotland
CARRIED: according to info supplied by John Kline of the 106th to Troop Ship Site
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423rd Infantry Regiment - from 106th Infantry Division
2nd Bn of 424th? *- from 106th Infantry Division
Plus most of the 87th Infantry Division including 345th Regiment)
*ERROR NOTE!
Floyd Ragsdale, who was in the 2nd Bn of the 424th, states he was on the Aquatania.
Could it have been the 2nd Bn of the 422nd that was here?
INFORMATION FROM:
Troop Ships website: ww2troopships.com/crossings/1944b.htm
note: take the sailing date with you when you hit this site.
Also, the "info supplied by" column under the Queen Elizabeth contains a link to a site by John Kline. The link is no longer good. It has foreign writing on it. Current links to John Kline's site and other major info sources on the 106th can be found on this discussion board under useful links: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3348/thread
On this Discussion Board
see Shipboard accommodations under Wartime Digs
106thdivision.proboards.com/post/254/thread
Thread on Walter Greve- 423rd) with link to his story on Indiana Military Site, including experiences on the Queen Elizabeth:
106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4173/thread
Thread on Book "And So It Goes" on the story of the life of Kurt Vonnegut 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3438/thread shares this quote from the book about Vonnegut's time on the Queen Elizabeth:
Waiting for the division when it reached New York was the RMS Queen Elizabeth, then the largest passenger ship ever built, painted in war time colors of battleship gray. Its steel hull was a thousand feet long with a “great big wide entrance door, as big as a wall,” said one of the men, awed, “and we went in there.”
Vonnegut discovered that he had been assigned, ironically, to the bridal suite on the top deck, airier and more spacious than the decks down below. On the morning of October 17 the Queen shoved off into the Hudson. Thousands of men on deck crowded against the railing and even climbed the rigging, cheering the Statue of Liberty. As protection against German submarines patrolling the eastern coast, a blimp followed them out to sea for two days, and then they were alone. The Grey Ghost, as it was called, moved the troops at an impressive thirty knots (thirty- five miles per hour).
Outside Links:
RMS Queen Elizabeth history on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth
ROUTE: from NY, NY - Gourock (?) Scotland
CARRIED: according to info supplied by John Kline of the 106th to Troop Ship Site
click to enlarge attachment
423rd Infantry Regiment - from 106th Infantry Division
2nd Bn of 424th? *- from 106th Infantry Division
Plus most of the 87th Infantry Division including 345th Regiment)
*ERROR NOTE!
Floyd Ragsdale, who was in the 2nd Bn of the 424th, states he was on the Aquatania.
Could it have been the 2nd Bn of the 422nd that was here?
INFORMATION FROM:
Troop Ships website: ww2troopships.com/crossings/1944b.htm
note: take the sailing date with you when you hit this site.
Also, the "info supplied by" column under the Queen Elizabeth contains a link to a site by John Kline. The link is no longer good. It has foreign writing on it. Current links to John Kline's site and other major info sources on the 106th can be found on this discussion board under useful links: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3348/thread
On this Discussion Board
see Shipboard accommodations under Wartime Digs
106thdivision.proboards.com/post/254/thread
Thread on Walter Greve- 423rd) with link to his story on Indiana Military Site, including experiences on the Queen Elizabeth:
106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4173/thread
Thread on Book "And So It Goes" on the story of the life of Kurt Vonnegut 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3438/thread shares this quote from the book about Vonnegut's time on the Queen Elizabeth:
Waiting for the division when it reached New York was the RMS Queen Elizabeth, then the largest passenger ship ever built, painted in war time colors of battleship gray. Its steel hull was a thousand feet long with a “great big wide entrance door, as big as a wall,” said one of the men, awed, “and we went in there.”
Vonnegut discovered that he had been assigned, ironically, to the bridal suite on the top deck, airier and more spacious than the decks down below. On the morning of October 17 the Queen shoved off into the Hudson. Thousands of men on deck crowded against the railing and even climbed the rigging, cheering the Statue of Liberty. As protection against German submarines patrolling the eastern coast, a blimp followed them out to sea for two days, and then they were alone. The Grey Ghost, as it was called, moved the troops at an impressive thirty knots (thirty- five miles per hour).
Outside Links:
RMS Queen Elizabeth history on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth