Friendly Fire

Interviewer: During the, either the Italian or the Holland campaigns, did you ever run into any incidents of friendly fire where your group was fired upon by allies? Yeah.......Interviewer: You did? Where was that? Oh, I don’t know just where it was at, but if we were advancing and the artillery was firing, unless they had perfect control, they fired the barrages. And then they fired for so long, and then they raised them and the infantry went in.Well, sometimes they’d go too far. Or sometimes they wouldn’t raise them. Because everything had to be synchronised so, it was just pretty nearly perfect. Because the artillery barrages … it was just a steady go. And then they lifted their range ahead and fired for so far ahead. And it was … it probably … there never was that much, but there was some. But some of them, when they got going, they got going like that. There was no opposition, they just kept going. There was no way to have control over the men, any more than just word of mouth, was all that they had. But there was no … I know there was an awful lot of places there was a lot done, but I never seen anymore than just … I know it was done. And it wasn’t done intentionally or anything, it was just, you know … there was nothing they could do about it. They were just advancing faster than they were supposed to.