B.    Embarquation, 1942

14 July - 7 December 1942

• to Fort Dix, New jersey

• "a 20 mile march with full eqipmnet was made.  After that everyone was cured of road marches.  Only short hikes were made thereafter."

• entrained for New York Harbor

8-16 December 1942

• after leaving harbor discovered that vessel was Queen Mary.

• "This trip was the roughest the Queen Mary had ever made..... came to within 5 degrees of turning over".  (See 326th History as this Company shared the voyage)

• docked near Glasgow on 14 December

• boarded train on 15th at 15.30 hours and, "after a 12 and a half hour train ride, everyone unloaded the next morning at 04.30 hours, 16th at Ashchurch, England,U.S. General Depot, G-25.  This was the first touch of the English blackout".  Taken by truck to camp and then quartered in a hangar.

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