No Training Until we got Overseas
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No Training Until we got Overseas
While we were in Canada we never
even seen a gun, we don’t even know
what it looks like until we got to England
that’s where we took the training on the guns,
the 40 mm anti- aircraft.
Everything is done, you could go by the
book and after we earned when we go on
gun sight to do gun drill we took a lot of
short cuts, you know.
Everything you got to do this first and
that first but once you know all the drill you
just kind of ignore it and go the shortest way.
You could do it in about half the time
you might say.
When we were down in Colchester
every evening around about five o’clock,
five thirty, we would take four guns down
to the east coast where (inaudible) sea
around that area, to set up the gun because
the Germans would come over,
very low over the English Channel and
they would drop a bomb or
say they go to (inaudible) they would fire their
machine gun just to break the morale
of the people you might say.
They’d drop a bomb and then
they would circle back.
This one particular night,
oh I was asleep all the time,
I slept all through it.
I ran the generator, the generator gives
electricity for the predictor.
Predictor is an instrument shows you how
fast the plane is going and which way,
direction but after the sun goes down
there is no use for it so our crew we
just packed it in and go to sleep.
It wasn’t until the next morning that
they found out that our gun crew had
shot down this plane;
first all Canadian gun crew to shoot the plane,
the German plane.
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