They’d Have Killed Us!
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They’d Have Killed Us!
And I was coming in to go into work again. I thought I was
getting weak. I caught onto the door and I was standing there
and looking and all of a sudden the sirens started and the
sirens started and everybody was out and underground. There, it
wasn’t so nice. A couple of hours underground, came out,
started to work again. Now they had a big boat just outside of
the foundry at sea. The Japs had an ammunition factory on that
and when we come out and we started to work, worked about maybe
20 minutes or more. The sirens started again and back
underground again. There, jeez, they had dropped the bomb in
the boat that had the ammunition factory aboard. Oh boy, I
said Jesus Mary, the Japs sure are going to kill us all but it
was the Americans was dropping bombs and shooting. We went
into dinner, Jesus Mary, the table was not quite so high as that
and a little wider than that and we used to sit back to back and
eat out of our mess tents, but the table there was just, take a
pickaroon and picked it on both sides. If we had of been in
there we would’ve been all shot down. The Americans, I suppose,
thought there were Japs in there and they fired at both sides.
Anyway, in the afternoon about two o’clock, maybe quarter past
two, sirens again. Jesus Mary, went in, used to finish at five
o’clock; it wasn’t five o’clock, it was seven o’clock. The Japs
wanted to get at us, the civilians. It took them all they could
do to keep them off of us. Oh they’d have killed us, jeez.
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