Decision not to Cross the Bay
Heroes Remember
Decision not to Cross the Bay
Working up on the Kai Tek Airport as you call it there. One
day, the little push carts there, to go and empty the clay, to
take clay . . . one day I took and I loosened the affair on the
brakes and the little fellow that used to always get up in front
and tell us when to stop and anyway went to stop the affair and
the brakes wouldn’t catch and off he goes over the hill, Nandow
creenaro!!, nandow creenaro!! I’ll tell you what I did. We was
supposed to uh . . . there was me and three other fellows was
wanting to leave and cross - there was a boat in by the shore
and anyway they says, “Arnie, we want to take the boats and
we’ll cross tonight.” Anyway, I went and I told Captain Price.
Now I had went and I cut the barbwire and I told the two guys,
“You watch and if you see the Japs coming just start whistling
or singing.” So, anyway, I cut it good and I just placed the
barbwire so they wouldn’t notice that it was cut and there I had
finished it and come over and sit down on the old barracks that
had burnt down and there was a Jap coming, a Jap guard. And I
was picking up some grass and pretending I was eating it. “What
are you doing there? That’s no good.” I says ...
So, anyway, after that I went to Captain Price. He was a father
to me, Captain Price. He was a real father. He says, “Arnie,
stay here. Don’t go, you’re only gonna get shot.
Do not go across the bay, you’ll get shot.”
So, anyway, I didn’t go. But the other fellows went,
they crossed the bay. But I guess one or two of them got shot.
One fellow went to a missionary, the
other side there, I guess he got through.
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