Reasons for Joining up

I grew up in a very quiet family. It was kind of, it was a kind of a family where it kind of dominated by my mom mainly so I led a very secluded life. I wanted to break out of this shell that I was in and I felt, two reasons I joined up, I thought by joining up it would teach me and it would expose me to the world that I was missing. We went to Toronto Manning Depot where we did our basic training and marching but this was a horrible experience for me because having been brought up in a very quiet secluded environment now I’m thrown in with hundreds of other men and young boys who are rough and tough and wow, what a transition for me. It was very difficult. From there I went to Guelph, Ontario to learn my Morse Code and my basic electronic training and then I went to Mossbank, Saskatchewan to become an air gunner and then after all this was put together then I was shipped overseas in probably mid August, September, 1943.