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Description
Mr. Gerrard describes evidence that America is closing in on Japan. He describes ships returning to Yokohama badly holed by American attacks. The firebombing of Tokyo and Yokohama which disables the shipyard and levels much of both cities is also a vivid memory.
Transcription
Of course we started getting the bombing raids and then the ships that would go out, we even noticed that some ships went out on trials and would come back with holes in them, so we knew that the navy, allied navy was out there not far away and, of course, the B29’s were coming over quite regular now. We were there the night that they made a swath right across Yokohama and Tokyo about a mile wide they just flattened it, and that was quite a night I’ll tell ya. The place was lit up all night from these exploding bombs and fires so they moved us out of there shortly after that, they couldn’t take us to work because of the situation and so they moved us up to northern Japan and I worked in a blacksmith shop and most of the other fellas worked in the mine and my job was just slinging a sledge hammer all day.