14-01-14, 01:16 PM
Dad was RAF in Egypt, staff driver with a sten gun, many a time driving along the straight road alongside the Suez canal he'd say the bus drivers would play chicken with him by driving straight down the middle, a few bursts off the sten made them see sense
another time he said he got a puncture and swerved and hit the only tree on the road, it saved him from going in the canal. He'd pick up an officer and be told to drive to the desert where someone at a certain point would flash a torch and he'd be told to "hang a right here" probably LRDG/SAS missions
Ended up a docker and told me stories of a docker who was ex POW in a Jap camp and he was so traumatised that he hated anything Japanese even cars. If a Jap boat docked then he'd want to kill the crew, now known as PTSD
granddad was in the Merch and got torpedoed twice on the Arctic runs, still got his medals
both gone now but I'd love to be able to sit and chew the cud with them now I'm older
another time he said he got a puncture and swerved and hit the only tree on the road, it saved him from going in the canal. He'd pick up an officer and be told to drive to the desert where someone at a certain point would flash a torch and he'd be told to "hang a right here" probably LRDG/SAS missions
Ended up a docker and told me stories of a docker who was ex POW in a Jap camp and he was so traumatised that he hated anything Japanese even cars. If a Jap boat docked then he'd want to kill the crew, now known as PTSD
granddad was in the Merch and got torpedoed twice on the Arctic runs, still got his medals
both gone now but I'd love to be able to sit and chew the cud with them now I'm older
fire never sleeps