âI volunteered to be drafted but I was a draftee,â he said.
The Mobile native entered the Army on Jan. 5, 1967. That Dec. 31, on New Yearâs Eve, he arrived in Vietnam as a demolition specialist.
âI got in at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. And for fireworks, people were firing rifles,â he said with a laugh.
But on Jan. 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Markell experienced it firsthand.
âKind of scary,â he said. âA lot of work. I mean I worked around the clock.â
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How to Make the Doughnut That Followed US Troops from World War I to D-Day and Beyond
Workers traveled in the Daniel Boone, the first American Red Cross clubmobile to land in Normandy, France, in July, 1944, following D-Day almost 75 years ago. (American Red Cross/Twitter)
In the wake of the initial Normandy landings on D-Day, a strange vehicle hit the beaches: converted London buses driven by three female volunteers from the Red Cross. Their mission was to bring a taste of home to the soldiers fighting World War II. Their weapon of choice was the doughnut.
While their early food truck might have been a new contraption 100 GMC trucks dubbed “Clubmobiles” were created for the D-Day invasion the baked goods they were bringing to Hitler’s Fortress Europe was not. This was
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