“The Glass House”
Heroes Remember
“The Glass House”
Well, it’s for lack of moral fibre and that’s what that is.
And you, you get up in the morning 6 or 5 or 6 o’clock in the
morning and you run to go to the can, you run to breakfast time,
you gulp your meal, you run to packville, you run with your pack,
and you run to lunch, you run back to the can,
you run to packville in the afternoon and you
run to go to bed and that’s it.
And they are really brutal they, they really do
a job on ya. I went to visit a guy who went to,
was sent to one and I wanted to see what it was like and,
partly because I wanted to tell some of the guys that I thought
might be interested in not going and were showing a little bit of
of, of queasy and I told them a story, “Believe me,” I said,
“You think, you think the Germans are bad.” We’re pretty bad
our own people when they, for that particular thing.
Especially for that time because, you know, we only had a tenth
of the number of planes the Germans had and less pilots too.
You know, it was to cure the, cure the buggars so they wouldn’t
be lack of moral fibre and some of them came back and were,
and were good pilots.They didn’t fly as free as a person that’d
never been there, obviously, because they had that fear. But the
punishment overrode the fear and that was the objective.
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