No Major Goof-Up

Recollections of World War II citizen soldier T/5 Jack M. Clark, A Battery, 474th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, as told to his daughter, Susan Clark Lawson

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You're in the Army now!

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Jack in his dress uniform When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the United States entered World War II on the side of the Alli...

College the Army way

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Both of these photos show off Jack's corporal stripes. At the end of basic training, it was standard for the officers to select a new...

AWOL from North Carolina

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Jack clowns around at Camp Davis, NC, with his newly issued rifle. With maneuvers completed, the 474 th left its half-tracks behind and ...

Over the sea to Great Britain

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T he Aquitania was the last of the four-stackers. Cunard Lines retired it in 1950. Early in 1944, the 474 th boarded yet another troop ...

Life among the Brits

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The front end of a half-track looks like a truck or Jeep, but the  back  uses tank tracks instead of wheels.  The roller mechanism  o...
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