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Description
Mr. Stanway recalls hearing of the Dieppe disaster and speaks of the effect it had on the morale of his battery stationed in Britain.
Transcription
Well our reaction, we heard the, you know, the stories were confused coming back but I met , I met a chap from the HLI (inaudible) and he came back and he said it was a, you know, it was a real, you know they just got in there and they were shooting and said it was just, they must have been... They were, the Germans were, something happened, I think they were aware that. I don’t know what it was but he said it was a real, a real disaster.
Interviewer: Did it dampen the spirits of you men in the 5th anti air craft battery?
No, not really. I think most of us were saying we got, you know we’ve been over here since, we’ re talking, nearly a year and a half. So we were, I think we were, I thought the people were ready to do something, most of our gang. We’d been there away from home so lets stay and see how the things were going.