Loading Jerry Cans

We landed in Belgium and the Germans didn’t have time to dig in, cause they went so fast, we got them on the run and they settled down into Holland. They dug in there. But then in that time, the front line was moving so fast (inaudible) is what I call them, we had tried taking up the supply and mostly the gasoline so first we would travel in six trucks, the convoy and we could put 250 tins, of jerry tins on the back of our truck and go and off load them and after we off load and go back and get another load and just keep going. I drove for around 36, 36 or 37 hours without stopping just long enough to load, you know. Loading and eating hard tacks and bully beef in the truck and keep going, a couple of the guys drove for 40 some hours. And so we figured it wasn’t going fast enough so we travelled in three trucks then we could move faster. And we got so that we could, if we got up close to where they had the big stack piles of jerry tins and the Englishman was running them and the Englishman they’d come and load our trucks but they’d fall in line of each other, you know, so we’d tell them to get out of the way so we’d get right in close, one guy we’d have a co-driver and my co-driver would stand down and he’d chuck them up to me and I’d load them. We could load about 250 tins in about 15 minutes, just steady go.