A lot of
the bombers would land there if they couldn't make it back to base.
The runway was wide and straight in from the Channel so they didn't
have to make any turns. Paul Maxwell landed there and his fingers
were covered with blood from his having to work, the primer pump
constantly.
During the last couple of weeks that I was in England we began to
hear the V-2 rockets that the Germans began to use. Most of them
were directed at London but we could hear the sound they made as they
went over us. The gun emplacements that fired them were all along the
coast of Europe and it wasn't long before they were sending them over
at night. It was interesting to fly over England at this time as
everything was being readied for the eventual invasion. Every field
in southern England was covered with big pile of boxes and equipment.
I didn't realize until after the war the tremendous amount of
supplies, food, gas, ammunition and hundreds of other things that
were needed to supply an invasion of that magnitude. No wonder there
were shortages back in the U.S.! So much of this was to be lost in
the Channel when ships were sunk on invasion day.
One night Bruce and I were hungry so we decided to break into the
supply tent and find something to eat. We got up the side of the tent
and reached under the roof where we found a gallon can, of fruit
cocktail. Wt ran back to the tent where we began to eat it.
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