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Description
Mr. McCabe describes removing concrete pillars placed by the Dutch to deter German aircraft from landing on Holland’s highways. Collaborators were given the ‘grunt’ work such as drilling holes for explosives in the pillars.
Transcription
Up in Holland where their highway, they was always figuring the Germans that they’d use aircraft to land on their highways which they did, but they put blocks up. Cement columns, big too, well the wall would be about two feet, and they’d go up about four or five feet high and there’ll be one there, there be one here and you’re going down the highway like this. We ended up taking a bunch of collaborators. This was outside of Utrecht, and we were there quite a while and we were taking our drills, our wagon drills, and we’d put dynamite in and we’d blow them up. That’s we’re doing, but the collaborators were doing this. They were actually doing on the jack hammers, putting the holes in and we’d take the dynamite in the sticks and load them up all around it and then put the charge and blow them up. So that’s the idea of cleaning them all off, we’d level them off as good as the floor. You wouldn’t think there was anything there.