Chapter 6 England and Missions

After a few days at Camp Kilmer we were moved out to board ship in themiddle of the evening. All I can remember is going up a fairly widegangplank into a huge yellow opening about 20 foot square in the side ofthe ship. The U.S.0. girls were there passing out coffee and doughnutsand I think there was a band playing. The ship was the QueenElizabeth, owned and operated by the English, and there were thousandsof us on this trip. I believe there were about 12,000 troops and acrew of 1,700 on the ship, but am not certain of the figure. We sailedat evening and by daylight we were at sea. I will note that we never didset the Statue of Liberty then or when we returned.