Nationalities in War

Because there was so many different nationalities . . . there was the Russians. You had the Yugoslavs. You had the Dutchman, which at the time were classified by the English as being a bunch of dope. You know, they didn't like the Dutchmen at all. And you had some Belgian. You had French. And we had our own area, see. The Russians used to be in the corner, and they'd be cut off from, from us, you see. They didn't want the Russian to associate with us. Then the, the whole camp was divided into sections, you see. The French were here and the British were here along, along, along the road, and we were on this side of the road. And the . . . then they had the air force. They always had trouble with the air force. They were, they were . . . because we were taught to, to escape and stuff like that, so they had them by themselves. And I was figured, the hell I'm going to go with the rest of the, the, the air force, I'm going to go with the British. So, I went with, with the-, with these fellas from North Africa, the British 8th Army they called it, tall fellas. They were all guardsmen, you know. So, I liked it there with them.