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The journey across the Atlantic took Mr. Wight nine days. He sailed aboard the troop ship Lady Rodney. It took less than 24 hours for Mr. Wight to realize what he had gotten himself in for, as he was exposed to his first air raid.
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I think it was about 30 or 40 of us went from Deer Lake and there was a bunch on her from Corner Brook and them times, as the train went around, there were little villages. She stop, well, and pick up somebody more, eh. But it was a big deal, I'll tell you that.
Interviewer: So what happened when you got to St. John's.
Holy Minister, the trains with buses and took us all in motels and then went down to the big army camp was there, and then . . . There's somebody here, somebody there. You went by your number then, see. They give you a number and when they call your number out you went to the . . . He went in this corner, that corner or somewhere like that.
Interviewer: And where did you go?
Eh?
Interviewer: Where did you go?
Oh I don't know where I went. I went . . . just, they just said you're 103. See, I was going for navy and there was some guys going for army, well, air force, everything was (inaudible).
Interviewer: So you chose to go to the navy?
Oh yeah.
Interviewer: OK, well, tell me about that. Why did you choose to go to the navy?
Because my buddies was gone, in the navy. They weren't brains enough to know what it was.
Interviewer: So you had no preference except for the fact that your friends were . . .
Yeah. Oh, we had a . . . We went overseas on a, on a, I think through the troop ship Lady Rodney. And we was on that about 10 or 15 days, when what . . . when we got to England through the air raids. Then we were scared.