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Buzz Bombs
Mr. Jones describes buzz bombs attacking London.
Small World
Mr. Jones describes the coincidental fact that the husband of a young girl he liberated in Holland during the Second World War now has the contract to maintain his property.
Thoughts on Racism
Mr. Jones compares the racism he experienced in civilian Montreal to the equality and sense of worth he felt as a soldier.
First Battlefield Experience
Mr. Jones describes the traumatic experience of recovering a dead Canadian soldier during his first day in action in France.
Losing Friends
Bud Jones was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was a good boxer and very athletic, becoming a PT instructor before his deployment to Europe in the Second World War. He was assigned to the Royal Canadian Regiment, whose responsibility it was to eliminate German V2 rocket launching sites along the European side of the English Channel. He would see service in France, Belgium and Holland. Following his war service, Mr. Jones enlisted in the regular forces, becoming a career soldier. During that time, he served in Germany and Japan in addition to his service in Canada.
AWOL
Mr. Goettler recalls going to visit his father in the hospital, and the trouble that the unauthorized trip caused.
Take no prisoners
Mr. Anderson describes the many locations in which he saw action, with emphasis on the Hindenburg Line and the handling of prisoners.
There’s no glory in war.
Mr. Berry reflects on war in general and discusses the gratitude of the Dutch.
I wasn’t happy as a civilian.
Mr. Berry describes his reenlistment in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and how good Military life proved to be for him.
You’d never survive without the comradeship.
Mr. Berry describes the bonding and comradeship in his Company, and how in later years he was able to reestablish contact with a wartime pal.
How could you look at a little kid and say no.
Mr. Berry describes with great compassion how the Canadian Army did its best to feed starving children.
He must have got drunk and fell in the canal.
Mr. Berry describes the 86th’s advance into Brussels, the elation of the civilians, and how an off-hand remark erroneously implicated him in the death of a member of his Company.
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