The 40 mm Bofors

You must remember that, you know, everybody back home is cheering us on, and one thing or another. All we wanted to do was be with our buddies. And, well, being a gun crew of a 40 mm Bofors, it was a nine man gun crew. And all daylight hours, when we were on coastal defence, the gun had to be manned. And you can imagine, in the summer hours, we had to have three men on the gun all the time. And summer hours, that means a lot of very, very boring hours. Like I said, we never even fired a shot, not one. We saw the odd German aircraft, but usually they were too far away. Our gun was for short range firing, like about a mile.