Shore Leave Excursions

Heroes Remember

Shore Leave Excursions

Transcript

They organized a trip for us to go to Nagasaki to see the bomb site, and... Interviewer: What was your impression of that site? What do you remember? It's, well we drove into the city on, on an army bus and when they explained it to us, it was, you know, what had happened, what the size of the city was and everything, it was really, I can't explain, I don't know the, the word, it was amazing that, that this could happen with one bomb. There is a bridge there, in Nagasaki, and some person was standing on the bridge when the, the bomb missed the city and there was a bridge and there was a person had been standing on there and their image is burnt into the concrete from the blast hitting them. They have a little, were starting to set up a little museum, and they had I-beams, twelve-inch I-beams just twisted, twisted like a pretzel, you know, scissors melted, and stuff like that, just amazing.

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Occasional shore leave took members of the crew of HMCS Sioux to some interesting places, including the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

William White

Mr. White was born Feb. 12, 1930. His father, a coal miner by profession, fought in both the First and the Second World Wars. The family moved to Nanaimo when Mr. White was about 1 year old. From a very young age Mr. White had wanted to join the Navy. He realized that dream when he enlisted on March 1, 1948. He set sail from the West Coast on the HMCS Sioux for Korea, in June of 1950. On the way to Korea they stopped in Hawaii to receive some anti-submarine training. Bt he says they never really received much training until they came under American control in Korea.

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Medium:: Video
Owner:: Veterans Affairs Canada
Duration:: 01:19
Person Interviewed:: William White
War, Conflict or Mission:: Korean War
Location/Theatre:: Japan
Battle/Campaign:: Korea
Branch:: Navy
Units/Ship:: HMCS Sioux
Occupation:: Storekeeper

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Shore Leave Excursions

Heroes Remember