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Description
Mr. Atkinson describes dummy training with mortars and doing some PT during the voyage to where they later learn will be Hong Kong.
Transcription
Some of the fellows had never fired a Bren Gun. We did some Bren Gun training, some Bren Gun firing. None of us had ever seen a knee mortar, a two-inch mortar or even a three-inch mortar. We’d heard stories about them. They had dummy drill on mortars, there was no mortar bombs to practice with. We kept in shape, we could run the deck, we had boxing matches with gloves on but that’s about all. It was an uneventful trip in that sense. We weren’t advised as to where we were going. I don’t think before Hawaii, it was after we stopped in Hawaii to fuel up that we were told we were going to Hong Kong. We were told it was going to be a garrison type job. This was the message we got from our platoon officers, this is what they were told. It would be very similar to the job we had been doing in Jamaica and that’s about it.