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Weather Conditions & Arriving Overseas

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Weather Conditions & Arriving Overseas

Interviewer: So what's your impression of the equipment you have on with you now? To protect yourself, to do what you have to do, while your travelling over to go to war. Do you feel you are sufficient? Well we knew that there was another boat coming, not at the same time but a week later or so, or two or three weeks later. And that was bringing in machine guns and it was our transport really and they got way laid in Manilla and for some reason or other they, if it was the war that started that they didn't get there, but they were to get off some other place other then Manilla. So that kind of curtailed our movement a lot during the fight, although there was mountains but there were roads through the mountains. Interviewer: And what do you remember about the conditions, the weather conditions? In the summer, in the winter time, this is winter time and it gets, you know, maybe 40 degrees. But we were, the problem with it, we were soaking wet so much,rain, rain, rain, and we were in our heavy uniforms, no summer uniforms at that time. That was a bad part; keeping our rifles and automatic guns dry, it was a, it was a problem.

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