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Description
Mr. Tupper talks about keeping the slit trench dry and he talks about red alerts. He talks about Hill 355 (porkchop). He talks about taking back the hill for the Americans.
Transcription
But I remember we used to always say keep your slit trench clean and wet, or dry, and make sure, you know, you bail the water out of it if it's raining, and it used to rain lots there, you'd get the monsoon weather, and then the winter was slushy and wet, but you made sure that you kept your slit trenches dry after that. So you had to go in there and stay in it for a while.
Interviewer: And you had to spend a few nights in the trench?
Once in a while when you get the red alert you headed for your slit trench and grabbed your guns and ammunition and, that's when we were back on rest edition then and the American's were on 355. The hill we had, they called it Porkchop, we called it 355. We went by numbers and they went by names. And they got overrun so then they called for the Canadians to come back in and take it again. So it was take it back for ‘em and then give it back to ‘em, so I think they got tired of doing that. I think the last end of it they wouldn't let them have it anymore, so.