The War is Over
Heroes Remember
The War is Over
Transcript
Well, we actually found out one morning,
we just got up and we were,
we had stopped going to the mine
so that was another indication that
something was up in the air.
We weren't going to the mine, and the Japs,
the guards were pretty casual and just about
ten o'clock in the morning
this American fighter plane
came over and he dipped his wing and
he started dropping leaflets
and of course they
fluttered all over and we picked
them up and there was a message.
What we were to do was to lay out an area
so many, so big so that when the
transport plane or bomber come over,
could drop this food and
medicine and so that's what we did.
We went out there with,
we even wasted our flour,
what little flour they had in
the kitchen there and anything we
could find that would make a mark and
we laid out a big square in the middle
of the parade square, in the middle
of the camp and sure enough,
two days later this big bomber came
over - barrels of food and medicine,
everything was dropping down.
Of course, some of it, the chute didn't
open and it just splattered all over the place.
Then we got orders that after this,
oh another three or four days after that,
after we got the food,
we got a message by the same fighter
plane that we were to...
By this time the Japs,
the guards had just off and left,
there wasn't a guard in the place
any place, they just...
We were there free, but of course we
didn't know where to go.
We got this, the plane dropped some
more leaflets and they told us,
give us direction,
little maps and they give us direction to go
down this hill to,
there'd be a little lake and
by the lake there'd be
a railway track.
We were to wait there for a American train
directed by some Americans and they
would pick us up and
take us to Yokohama.
Description
Mr. Agerbak recalls the day the war ended and how leaflets were dropped by American airplanes.
Borge Agerbak
Borge Agerbak was born in Odense, Denmark and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1927 to a small town in southern Manitoba called Pilot Mound. Mr. Agerback worked on the farm until war broke out in 1939. Along with his two brothers, he decided to join the Winnipeg Grenadiers.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- July 17, 2013
- Duration:
- 2:35
- Person Interviewed:
- Borge Agerbak
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Japan
- Battle/Campaign:
- Hong Kong
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