Under Fire in Italy

It was shortly after that we got bombed by, they said it was a (inaudible) or something, and it hit one of our trucks, one beside where I was by my truck, and a good friend of mine was seriously wounded, at the ship. They shipped him out to, Ronnie, they shipped him out to Malta. But that was the first really. So there was some German aircraft coming over at that time. We were just getting ready to and all of a sudden the air craft was there and of course when they hit the truck all the, our truck had the ammunition down both sides, carries six men, a driver and usually a sergeant, sometimes eight men, and ammunitions on the side of it. You know all the, your 40 mm spare ammunition, and of course that went off. I remember laying down there and the stuff was flying all over. I didn’t get hit but my friend did seriously. And he was in the hospital there and they shipped him over to North Africa and he came back to the Lanark and Renfrew, he was in the infantry for a short time. But that was in Sicily and he’d only been there I think, hard to say whether it was four days or eight days. I’m not sure, but he’d gone and three or four of our fellows...