Never Rush It

Well you got to have your mind very much set on everything you're doing. No messing, no talking about anything when your doing what your doing because what you are doing is, you are looking for something hidden behind that bush up there, maybe an 88mm gun ready to blast you right off the road, so you know there is nobody between you and the Germans and all the time it's coming through on the wireless, "Carry on! Carry on!" Telling you to go quicker because somebody way back at the brigadier is telling your commander they are looking for some information as to how far the Germans are gone back from their last attack and they're wanting to know what's going on. Well I would never let this interfere with my thoughts. I would never rush it. If I thought there was. Like for instance, one time we were coming along doing nothing, as it were, well we know the Germans are just in front of us, somewhere. I . . . we pulled into a farmhouse. I ran upstairs on the second or third floor, it was a big house, to look over this hill that we'd stopped, just before a hill in the road, where we went in. Now if you look from this window and look down and sure enough there was two German motorcycles and sidecars. The sidecars had machine guns on them. Waiting right there just over the brow for us to come over. So that was the sort of thing that you see I would do.