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Teletype Training Class - Clifton College
Roberts, LaSalla, Searl [NJ]
Hauck [NJ], Williams [NY], Fischetti [NY]

Bob Searl [NJ]: Cerisey Forest, France

Images of the war's effect on a quaint village in Normandy

St. Laurent [MA], Gahres [PA], Schum [NY] at Bury St. Edmonds, England

Note and photo memory of Sister Agnes, during our stay in Herve, Belgium. Reads: "To Bob, in remembrance of midnight mass in Belgium, 1944. God bless you, Sister Agnes."

Departed NY Port of Embarkation July 1942 in Naval Convoy. Arrived Gourock, Scotland with elements of 56th Signal Battalion aboard. An anxious two week voyage, in the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic Ocean in this recently quickly…

St. Vith, Belgium

Robert Searl in Eupen, Belgium, a few days before the Battle of the Bulge, Dec 1944

Citizen soldier - Private - 56th Signal Battalion - First Corps. Drafted May 1941 to serve one year in the pre-war military service at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In December 1941, Pearl Harbor, changed this to eventual direct participation in the…

Resting in a village outside of Bayeux, so named due to a coal mine that once existed here.