Too Young
Heroes Remember
Transcript
Because I was so young that it
really didn’t scare me any.
You know, I was too young to
know the danger, I guess.
And the war started we fought for days
and nights until it was finished.
We didn’t have no sleep and
that lasted from what,
from the 8th til Christmas Day.
That’s about two weeks, a couple weeks and
we didn’t sleep for two weeks.
We just kept on eating when you could and
fight and we didn’t really give out.
It was the English Governor of the Island
that give up the Island.
Then the Japs had us walking the
start to prison camp.
It was a prison camp on
the Island nearby the harbor.
There was some in Kowloon and
after that I stayed there in Hong Kong
for maybe two years and
the next two years I spent in Japan.
Description
Mr. Leblanc recalls that when the war started, it was pretty much round the clock fighting until the capitulation.
Jean Leblanc
Jean Leblanc was born in New Richmond, Quebec in 1932. His mother died when he was only three years old and he lived with his father and brother until he joined the army in 1940 at 16 years of age. Mr. Leblanc admits that he really didn't know what the army was all about at the time of enlistment.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- February 2, 1999
- Duration:
- 1:21
- Person Interviewed:
- Jean Leblanc
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Hong Kong
- Battle/Campaign:
- Hong Kong
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Royal Rifles of Canada
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