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Description
Mr. Devouge discusses his willingness to serve wherever he was asked to do so, and subsequently making the voyage to Hong Kong.
Transcription
A major come and he asked me, he said, "Where do you want to go, do you want to go across? " I said, "I joined for my country and any place you want to take me I'm willing to go." He said, "That's the way I like to hear a man talking."
Interviewer: What do you remember about the ship?
I don't remember the name but she was a beautiful ship, an American boat, and there was another one that run along with us and we had destroyers, you know, minesweepers on each side and it took us eight days to go across for the rough weather. It was in October. Rough weather, we had to slow down for the little ones not to get torpedoed, they couldn't go so fast in the rough. It took us eight days.
Interviewer: When did you find out where you were going?
Half way across, he opened… Hong Kong.
Interviewer: And when you heard that it was Hong Kong that you were going to, what did you know about Hong Kong?
Nothing, but we didn't care.