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- ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland
- People in story:Ìý
- Margaret Millar (nee Short)
- Location of story:Ìý
- Weymouth
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:Ìý
- A8005466
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 23 December 2005
I'm from Edinburgh and was stationed in Weymouth durng the war. US soldiers left from their for the D-Day landings in 1944. We struck up friendships with them. At the dances they were great - terrific dancers, and we got to know a few of them by name. They were from the 1st Division of the American Infantry.
Then they were all shipped off and I remember them marching off to ships along the promenade in Weymouth. You couldn't recognise them at all, but I do remember a voice shouting "Hey, Scottie!" I always think that was someone from the group we danced with Where is he now, where are they now, did they survive?
One I knew in particular was: Jake Picardy, from Boston, Mass.
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