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World War II Story by Robert F. Gallagher
"Scratch One Messerschmitt" (400
pages and 200 photos )
United States Army, 815th Anti-Aircraft
Artillery Battalion, Third Army, European Theater, 1941 - 1945
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Table of Contents
Synopsis
and About the Author
Chapter 1: Chicago Before the War and Pearl Harbor
Chapter 2: Drafted
Chapter 3: Camp Haan, California
Chapter 4: Hooray for Hollywood
Chapter 5: March Air Force Base
Chapter 6: Camp Irwin on the Mojave Desert
Chapter 7: One More Try
Chapter 8: Things Improve
Chapter 9: Getting Ready
Chapter 10: Camp Shanks and New York City
Chapter 11: Life Aboard Ship
Chapter 12: Camp Stapley, England
Chapter 13: Crossing the English Channel
Chapter 14: Camp Twenty Grand, France
Chapter 15: Woippy, France
Chapter 16: Differdange, Luxembourg
Chapter 17: Alzey, Germany
Chapter 18: St. Goar, Germany
Chapter 19: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Chapter 20: Hanau, Germany
Chapter 21: Wurzburg, Germany
Chapter 22: Regensburg, Germany
Chapter 23: Landau, Germany - War in Europe Ends
Chapter 24: Straubing, Germany
Chapter 25: Camp Tophat, Antwerp, Belgium - War Ends
Chapter 26: Black Market
Chapter 27: Rest and Relaxation
Chapter 28: Military Police Duty
Chapter 29: Back to England and the Trip Home
Chapter 30: Post War
Epilogue
Medals and Patches |
German Messerschmitt and American P-51 Mustang.
Training on the 40mm gun in the Mojave desert.
Tank Destroyer fires at the enemy across the Rhine river.
Bob Gallagher (right) and German POWs |
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Footnotes and Source of
Photographs.
Copyright, Robert F.
Gallagher, 1999 - 2008, all rights reserved on all images and content.
Please contact Bob Gallagher at bob@gallagher.com
regarding use of any content.
This web site created and
supported by Bob Gallagher's son - Mark Gallagher. Portions
of this story originally published in 1999. A major update of the
story and this web site were completed in 2005.
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