The Gulf War
Heroes Remember - Gulf War
The Gulf War
Transcript
I'll always remember the Chief of Staff Wilf Cutterful, Colonel
US Army, called me at 2:30 in the morning and says, "Don, the
first SCUDS have just landed in Tele Aviv." In fact, there was
40 odd SCUDS came over, and not that many regardless of what you
saw on television, hit Tele Aviv, a lot of them went right over
and then we accelerated our level of our participation and so
forth. In fact, our camp was in direct line from most of the
launch sites in western Iraq, the SCUDS, in line with Dimona,
which is the, although they won't admit it, the Israeli nuclear
facility and ourselves. The only reason I mentioned that is I
got a call from national defence intelligence centre 01:30 one
morning; said "Colonel, did you hear it?" I said, "Hear what?"
and he says, "Well there was a SCUD landed about half a mile
from your camp". First of all I said, "a half a miles a long way
away, for a SCUD, secondly it's a piece of crap anyhow, it's not
gonna hurt anybody", because it's usually breaking up as it
comes back through the atmosphere. I hadn't heard it,
we never found anything.
Description
Mr.Ethell talks about being in the Middle East at the start of the Persian Gulf War.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 01:23
- Person Interviewed:
- Donald Stewart Ethell
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Location/Theatre:
- Persian Gulf
- Battle/Campaign:
- Gulf War
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
- Rank:
- Colonel
- Date modified: