The Machine Gunner

I was in number one on the machine gun, we went on ranges and everything. We had competitions to give you training in what we call traverse. You know you hit the one side of the gun, the handles and just to move it a couple of degrees. You didn’t want to go like this, this is not Hollywood. You are trying to save ammunition, to kill somebody really, let’s face it. So we learned how to operate and do that.
Four, and there was a driver, he helped to bring up ammunition with a number three. I had a number two. He’s the one that fed the belts into, into the machine gun. Now when he wanted more ammunition you get used to what, what is required, how much is fired. The number three, number four would carry some of the ammunition up and the driver if needed. But he would, usually he would go back further with the Bren carrier away, just so that you don’t have everybody at the same place. There were two sections the senior section with two gun and the junior section with two gun. But it was only a division still you were all together. But it could be, like when we were in Iceland, we only, we only had like the senior division, the two guns, that’s why I mentioned only the two guns there. But further down the ocean beach, the other two guns were there, but they, they belonged to the same platoon number thirteen.