Day after the bombing raid

But, the funny part was that, you know, at, when it was the next day, when it came light, all the tanks were all black from being hit, and the house and the barn that were on the other corner were completely gone, and the trees on this corner were kindling wood, and not a shell hit us. Not a bomb hit us. Right on that intersection. The, the bombs that were just sort of floating by us and landing you know, maybe 25, 50, 100 yards just beyond us. Never got hit, it was amazing. We had a blue, a red cross up, but by that time it didn't mean anything because there was so much smoke.

You're not afraid really, because you have a job to do.

It's only after that you start getting scared. You know, at the time you are just, you're too busy to think about it, you know and it's only after that you think, what a fool, you know, you know. But that's the, that's the way with the infantry, the same way, you know, it's not me that is gonna get hit, you know.

Interviewer: It's the other guy.

Yeah, it's the other guy, yeah.

We didn't have Penicillin at this particular time, we had it just a, several months later, but we didn't have it then. It only came in, well in ‘42 was when it was discovered, but it, it wasn't in, in use at that time, we did, I would think, oh, about 6 months later, we did get Penicillin in vials, for injection, but we didn't have it at that time. We would have, we would have Staph or some antibiotics...

Interviewer: You mean Sulfa?

Sulfa drugs. That's what, that's it, not antibiotics, sulfa drugs we had at that time, which we would use to treat wounds and so on, and morphine and things like that. We would patch them up and, and send them back, or send them back to their unit. One or the other, and we would, depending on how serious they were, where we would send them back.