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Lewis, Burton Postwar
Burton Lewis had no experience with the integration of the armed forces following World War 2.
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Lewis, Burton Reflections
Burton Lewis served during the war because it was what every 18 year old did. He was lucky to have an engineering education.
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Lewis, Burton War's End
Burton Lewis entered Germany and helped set up a factory to manufacture netting in preparation for the crossing of the Elbe River [Annotator's
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Lewis, Claude Entrance into Service
Claude L. Lewis was born in 1922.
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Lewis, Claude Reflections
Claude L. Lewis slept on the porch at one place they stayed. The lady put their sergeant upstairs in her son’s bedroom.
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Lewis, Claude The Mountain Division
Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States].
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Lewis, Claude Wounded in Action
Claude L. Lewis remembers they had to dig foxholes. The Germans had left big piles of sandbags. They could see the little town below them.
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Lewis, Donald Closing Thoughts
Donald Lewis feels lucky [Annotator's Note: for surviving the sinking of the SS Athenia on 3 September 1939 when he was five years old].
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Lewis, Donald Prewar Life and Scotland
Donald Lewis was born in April 1934. In 1939, Lewis was five and on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic.
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Lewis, Donald Remembering Being Torpedoed
As an adult decades later, there was a disaster in the Atlantic with the Andrea Doria [Annotator's Note: the SS Andrea Doria, 25 July 1956].
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Lewis, Donald Rescued and Reunited
Donald Lewis was in the bottom of a lifeboat that was crowded [Annotator's Note: after the SS Athenia was struck by a torpedo on 3 September 1
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Lewis, Donald Returning to the United States
Donald Lewis was taken to Glasgow [Annotator's Note: Glasgow, Scotland]. They were issued gas masks.