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Buzz Bombs

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The buzz bombs, we had problems with those, yeah. Interviewer: Did you? They were scary. The first go around I had with them, I was on duty by myself on the top of Seamich Queue (sp) in the middle of London and these things started coming over and it was a different noise to an airplane and they were trying to shoot them down, of course. It was very noisy. I kept running around trying to find out what these things were. The barrage balloons were all up at that time after they brought them down so they wouldn't trap them. But it was really quite scary, quite scary, and then we learned what they were. And of course, you could hear them coming and then they'd shut out and you could count to fifteen before they went off. That was a long fifteen seconds. I remember when we were going off on leave, we were going off to Oxford on it. We didn't have any leave at that time but we could take courses. So we went off to a Shakespearean course in Oxford and we were going to sleep in and a buzz bomb hit and blew the windows in and all that sort of thing. So we got up and left, left in a hurry. Yeah, they were really scary.
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Ms. Walt talks about her experiences with the buzz bombs.

Anita Catherine Walt

Anita Catherine Walt was born on June 11, 1921 in Port Arthur, Ontario. Her father was an officer in the First World War and remained in Europe afterwards to help with reconstruction as he was an engineer.

After finishing high school Ms. Walt went on to take a secretarial course. After hearing of the Japanese invasion at Pearl Harbour she decided to follow in her father's footsteps and enlist in the army.

Ms. Walt completed her training in Bellevue and Vancouver and shortly thereafter was sent overseas to London, England as a private. She worked there as a stenographer and was in charge of an office.

In the fall of 1944, Ms. Walt was sent to Belgium and spent some time in Germany before coming home to Canada in the fall on 1945.

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Medium:
Video
Owner:
Veterans Affairs Canada
Duration:
01:31
Person Interviewed:
Anita Catherine Walt
War, Conflict or Mission:
Second World War
Branch:
Army
Rank:
Private
Occupation:
Stenographer

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