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2.

Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day?
No
Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?
No
Were you wounded? Slight head-wound

How were you wounded?

Do you remember what it was like —that is, do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?
No

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even though
it may not have seemed amusing at the time? Or anything unexpected or out- of-place?
We were en-planed & waiting for the take-off, the engines
spluttered & then silence, a mad "de-bus" & into another "Dakota"
when we had been training on "Albemarle". And yet all planes
were supposed to be air-worthy & tested.

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, that struck
you more than anything else?
A parting service was held by our Padre at the concentration
area before we left for Brize-Norton, it always struck me
as being so touching, everyone in battle-kit, black faces &
yet everyone deeply moved by the occassion.