Teletype Training Class: Bristol
Teletype Training Class - Clifton College
Roberts, LaSalla, Searl [NJ]
Hauck [NJ], Williams [NY], Fischetti [NY]
Dec 1942
Telephone Station, Cerisey Forest, Normandy
Bob Searl [NJ]: Cerisey Forest, France
06-1944
Street Scenes: Vire, Normandy 1944
Images of the war's effect on a quaint village in Normandy
1944-06
St. Laurent [MA], Gahres [PA], Schum [NY]
St. Laurent [MA], Gahres [PA], Schum [NY] at Bury St. Edmonds, England
1943
Sister Agnes, Herve, Belgium
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."
Robert Howard Searl Sr.
1944-12
S.S Argentina
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 converted South American luxury liner. About 8000 troops aboard with "standing room only" accomodations.Fog and poor visibility was an asset during this journey. What a relief and appreciative sight to see the vivid green hills of Ireland approach the horizon after the two week journey. Little did I think that it would be three long years before I would be heading eastward for home and family again in this very same vessel...The SS Argentina, in June of 1945.
1942
Road Signs to Monschau
St. Vith, Belgium
Robert Howard Searl Sr.
1944-11
RHSearl in Eupen
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Eupen
Robert Searl in Eupen, Belgium, a few days before the Battle of the Bulge, Dec 1944
Robert Howard Searl Sr.
RH Searl, Personal Collection
December 1944
RHSearl 1941 Portrait
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 Initial Assault on the Normandy coast of France with the First US Army on June 6, 1944, Omaha Beach, to the end of hostilities in May of 1945 deep into Europe at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. A survivor of a total of 335 consecutive days in combat across Europe.
Robert Howard Searl Sr.
June 1941
Resting in La Mine, France
Resting in a village outside of Bayeux, so named due to a coal mine that once existed here.
1944-06