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Monday, 12th March 1945
Back with the unit, the current situation was not too healthy for me, as I was now suffering from tenesmus. I visited the M.O., who prescribed castor oil. It was moving time, (no pun intended) and the company now packed up for the next move. |
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Friday, March 13, 1970
On this date thirty nine years ago (a Friday the 13th as it is this year), I left the war in Vietnam behind me as I flew in a Freedom Bird back to the World where I was discharged from the Army and went home to my wife and sixteen month old son. The World -- anywhere but Vietnam Freedom Bird -- any airplane flying you to the World |
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Former Member
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Welcome back to the World, Dave - do you really feel 39 years older?
----------------------------------------Tuesday, 13th March 1945 Moving day, indeed. The company was on the move and so, in a manner of speaking, was I. We did not have to set up a casualty collecting post as we were in the assembly area, not the support area. In any case, there was no sign of any casualty. The mopping-up operation seemed to be over and there was no long queue of P.O.W.s marching past us. There was no M.O. either - he must have got lost on the way, or been called to H.Q. for a briefing. Well, we could manage without him for a day or two. Nobody else was ill, and I could manage my own illness. Guts were no better, so I took a lead and opium tablet, as there were no Sulphathalidine or Sulphasuccidine tablets available forward of the hospital zone. It was fortunate for me that these sulphonamides were not available as they later proved to cause blood dyscrasias. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 13, 2009 11:02:12 AM] |
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Former Member
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Welcome back to the World, Dave - do you really feel 39 years older? I really do not at times. However, that 16 month old son I came home to -- He is now 40 -- that makes ya feel old! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I know how you feel . One of my grandsons is a university student.
----------------------------------------Wednesday 14th March 1945 Guts somewhat better. MO returned. He approved of the opium but not the lead. What was more important was the plan for the next operation. We were to stay where we were until a smoke screen obscured the whole river from the far side. We would then approach our concentration area, receive a number for each vehicle, and proceed to a parking place near the jumping off area, to cross the river by pontoon bridge when they call our number. The crossing would be one way only. There was no way we could send back any casualty via the bridge until all troops were across, but there were special arrangements for the treatment of casualties on the other bank. There were also military ferries of one sort or another, but not enough of them for two way traffic. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 14, 2009 11:21:15 AM] |
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Thursday, 15th March 1945
Guts settled. We seemed to have no military function. Casualties (if any) would go straight to Clearing Station or hospital. Our only occupations were writing home and sitting watching the military build-up beyond the smoke screen. |
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Friday, 16th March 1945
We now had something to read and discuss. The new edition of "Soldier" arrived, together with a printed instruction sheet from General Eisenhower. The main article dealt with our instructions for the treatment of the local residents. In short, we were not to fraternise with them. On the other hand, we had now repealed the Nuremberg Laws. This meant that people robbed of their German citizenship were now Germans again. How were we expected to treat them? Were we meant to tell them that they were now Germans and we were sending them to Coventry? |
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Saturday, 17 March to Sunday, 6th May 1945
----------------------------------------March and April were busy months, as WWII drew to a close in Europe. We crossed the Rhine in a cloud of smoke, under an umbrella of aircraft. We were no longer Canadians, but an offshoot of our old division, the 15th (Scottish), attached to the 25th Airborne Division. We were, in fact, those special arrangements for the treatment of casualties who could not be evacuated. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 25, 2009 11:01:39 AM] |
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Tuesday, 8th May 1945
----------------------------------------I was back with my unit. A German civilian took my photograph with Will Farmer for us to celebrate the official end of the war in Europe - but the fighting was not over yet – SS men occupied our peacetime billet, and the Wermacht (German Army) had to winkle them out. Meanwhile, we had not paid the photographer since nobody had paid me, as I was on the move the previous payday. I had a temporary billet in Lauenberg, where everything was in a state of flux, with German soldiery swanning around, looking for someone to accept a mass surrender. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 25, 2009 11:02:29 AM] |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
color=darkblue]Wednesday, 9th May 1945.
----------------------------------------194 (AL) Field Ambulance was still on front line duty, but not in support of the Lowland Brigade or the airborne troops. We had moved to Bad Segerberg to support the German army's winkling out operation. Our favourite song was still "We don't know where we're going until we're there!" Tomorrow was to be pay day - double for me - perhaps we could still pay that photographer - if I could find my way back to Lauenberg! Thursday 10th May 1945 I was standing by for Wermacht & SS casualties, found there were none, so reconnoitred the town. The High Street was signed "Haupt Strasse" but there were traces of its previous name: "Adolf Hitler Strasse". Pay day came and went, but there was no chance of a lift to Lauenberg, as we were awaiting orders for a further move, we knew not where. [Edit 5 times, last edit by Former Member at May 25, 2009 11:10:58 AM] |
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