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Description
Mr. McKinney describes watching, from an adjacent position, the Royal Canadian Regiment being overrun on Hill 355, and having to call in artillery fire on the Canadian position. He describes his fear despite not being under direct attack.
Transcription
The hill that I was on, and I’m not sure of the number anymore, I think it was 166 or 167, but 355 is a hill that’s well known as Little Gibraltar by the Americans. The Royal Canadian Regiment were on that and they were attacked just before sunset. The Chinese overran them. And I was on the next hill, so we were actually calling fire down right on top of them because the RCRs were in their trenches. The Chinese were running above the ground. So whether we kill any of our own people or not I don’t know, but we certainly did raise enough heck with the Chinese that they retreated, left. But there was, I didn’t know what it was all about. I heard this screaming and hollering and bugles blowing and it was kind of scary, even sitting on the next hill. So I could imagine what the RCRs felt when they were attacked that night.