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dipsydoodle

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4. Mine was coming up through Italy

Reply to onehandle (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 08:05 AM

Dec 2011

having landed at Sicily from North Africa.

He rarely spoke of the war. After he died back in '93 my mother explained to to me that he lost all of his pals when their ship, which was in front of the one he was on, was blown out of the water on the journey to Sicily.

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