The doctor had to wake him up
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The doctor had to wake him up
Like I say, I got, when I was in the infantry, I got categorized.
My feet went bad on me, so they transferred me into Ordinance.
They asked me if I wanted to drive. Said, “Sure.”
Like I say, I’ve said before, they gave me ten days course,
and from then on I drove trucks.
They’re loaded with whatever they have and it's all covered
anyway. We don’t know what we’re taking, might be ammunition
or whatever. And we take that to the, sometimes to the port,
and then from port ships will take it over and they grab it from
over there. And sometimes they bring the old wrecks back
and we’d have to drive them back to our Ordinance Depot.
The roads are good. They're not very wide, but they're good.
There were never any bad roads at all. It don’t get cold
like this over there. Not that much frost.
No frost at all, I can remember.
I was driving truck before D-Day, and at that time, boys, we were
driving day and night, getting truck, getting up through the
front and stuff like that, and we never stopped. Seven days,
we kept on going. Never, couldn’t even clean up, wash your
clothes or nothing. Finally one day, once one fellow got so
tired he went to sleep and they couldn’t wake him up one morning.
They had to get a doctor to wake him up. So from then on,
they made sure that we get one day a week off to clean up,
wash our clothes and get a rest. But before that, we was
going steady, going day and night. We’d get home midnight
and around 6 o’clock next morning, we were on the go again.
Kept on going, day after day.
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