Invasion Scare in Iceland
Heroes Remember
With those big waves that went over our huts we decided
if there was going to be another one that we were going to get
out of there. But anyways, it ended up that I was on guard with
another fella near the main dock and we had an agreement between
the two of us. One of us could get out and go around the big
warehouse and make sure that everything was fine. The British
operated that as a matter of fact right at the docks. Rations and
soldiers came through there and everything. But, I was around the
building when got down to the back of it I heard the machine gun
go. And I knew that it was ours, the sound, you know you, there’
a difference in sound with the German machine gun than ours.
And I said, “What the hell is going on?” So I hurried and went
back to the gun pit. And there he is just firing away. So I’m
looking through the slit and what had happened when the storm
came up, there’s a big break water on the left of the docks with
a, a walkway or a vacant way that went to the island and an
entrance. They could put about thirty or forty fishing vessels.
And by the way their fishing vessels were all the same.
They look like a toy at sea. They look like a toy boat with
masts, with sails. But what had happened, the storm had uprooted
this one particular guy. I guess his mourning was broken.
And it was right, it was coming at us the wind was pushing
it right towards us and that young lad, I call him young lad
because I think I was a year or so older. He’s from Ottawa and I
remember him very well I, I met him a few years ago. He thought the
Germans were landing and he was firing this god damn thing, this
thing rather. And well I said, “Stop, I said it’s a boat that’s
broke off, from the, from the others.” Well, I tell you the first
thing I know a jeep came up and red caps in their and one of our
officers wanting to know what the hell was happening. They, they
thought there was going to be a stand to a standby for everybody
because the Germans were landing. No, (inaudible) oh that was a
big goof. But it turned out that, you know, we told them the story,
and, that we never heard anymore about it. But I imagine
our government had to buy a boat anyway.
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