World War II, Sylvester Voss

Posted: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 12:00 am | Updated: 4:25 pm, Thu Dec 20, 2012.

After graduating from Linn High School on May 19, 1944, I was drafted into the Army at age 18. I was inducted on June 14, 1944, at Jefferson Barracks. I had 17 weeks of basic training at Camp Hood, Texas, and six weeks of advanced basic training at Camp Gruber, Okla., which included a lot of problem-solving drills at night.

I was sent overseas with 3,000 other men. The ship zigzagged across the Atlantic every seven minutes, so the German subs could not zero in. After a couple of days at sea, a depth bomb was dropped on a German sub. It took seven days to cross the Atlantic. We docked at Glasgow, Scotland, and took an English troop train to South Hampton, England.

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