Search Party
Heroes Remember
Search Party
Well, we landed there and the first thing we had to do was go
out and search, a search party. There was two airmen got lost,
ran out of gas or whatever. We had to go and search for them.
We landed in there, say, six o’clock. And at eight o’clock,
we was in a damned aircraft, looking, seeing if you could
see any signs of anybody. And they were...
this was one of the things that went on an awful lot.
A lot of downed aircraft. Because they found out, later years...
there was a lady that was up there that told me that after the
war, they found this here damned German sub way in an alcove.
And they was getting them on radar and directing... giving them
wrong directions. And they were silly enough to take it.
Then you’d, for days, up searching and looking to see if you
could see any sign of life. So that’s one of the things.
And after, after the war - and I’d like to remember that lady’s
name - but she said that they found this damned old sub and it
was, the tables was set, for goodness sake, and they were right
there all the time, eh. Can you imagine?
So it was quite a ... yeah.
Interviewer: Were you helping look for these downed air planes?
(Oh yes.) You were up in the air?
They’d just, oh yeah. They’d say “You, you and you.” That was it.
There was no ... you had nothing to say in it. They’d say, “You,
you and you.” Yeah. But the first, when we landed there,
I believe, I am a little ahead of my story, there was a Harvard,
a Harvard and they got lost and this was a search. Look out the
windows and see if you could see any sign of life. I think it was
nine days and they were going to give up the search and they got
a weak, weak radio message. And they went to it. They found them
but they were just skeletons. They were just skeletons. They had
been out there nine or ten days without anything to eat.
They survived. They lived. They got them back
to the hospital, I was told.
Related Videos
Halifax Riots
Mr. Ramsay talks about the Halifax riots that took place after VE Day.
- Date modified: