0:00 - Taking leave in Jacksonville and having a Caucasian man pay for his lunch / Seeing family before being shipped overseas / Camp struck with an outbreak of measles / Shipping out to Le Havre

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Keywords: cargo plane; family; Fort Meade; Liberty Ship; lunch; measles; quarantine; USO

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9:46 - Being transported from Le Havre to Marseilles

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Keywords: civilians; duty; excitement; train

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12:06 - Arriving at Marseilles / Unit's transfer to Italy and arrival on the Gothic Line / Night march up a mountain

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; artillery fire; farmhouse; Gothic Line; Italy; landing craft; marching; POW

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19:43 - Marching up steep mountains in Italy

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Italians; mountains; night march

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21:54 - How to set up a mortar for firing

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Keywords: ammunition; base plate; gunner; mortar; tube

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23:54 - German POWs and the character of the German soldier

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Keywords: contraband; cooks; disciplined; interrogation; POW; process

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