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Description
In preparation for the move towards Sicily, Mr. Cromwell speaks about waterproofing their vehicles.
Transcription
We were all anxious to go, to go overseas and wondered how come our outfit has to be the 2nd Division, you see we had went to Dieppe and got clobbered and wanted to get back into action again as far as our Division was concerned.Interviewer: During the winter of 1943 - 1944 during that period of time, did you notice that the division was now getting prepared in a different way? Oh yeah, we started training heavy, right heavy and then they started teaching us how to waterproof our vehicles so when we got onto the shore we could drive off in a lot of water so we did all that and just left the parts, left the carburetors out so they could breathe when we were using the truck. But we had to put our exhaust, run them right up high over the top of the cab and stuff like that.