First of all I was told that England would appear very strange to me were I to go back there now—black= outs, alr raid warnings, soldiers everywhere, guns barking—every night, ete,, ete. Again T referred to the moral of the people. "Well said one of the ship's officers, " hardy fellow from Glasgow, "I think we can take it" He explained to me how, on his last trip ashore in England, there had been an air rai "You should have heard the versation in the shelter T was in said. "The alr vald did not worry them much but it was gotting near closing time, and then came tragedy. When' the. all clear' was sounded the pubs had shut. And were we dry?" Some bombs had been dropped in that raid dnd everyone in the Shelter had been in danger. instead of fear there were jokes. And the Germans talk about the demoralize tion of Britain.
On that ship I met a Royal Marine reservist, who had been a gee grocer in Portsmouth until the war fad brought him into His Majesty's Service again, His Job was to teach the crew how to handle their guns—uns which had been placed on the ship to defy submarines and Nazi planes, "He was rather sorry that the Navy ave conveys such good protection that he had not had the Chance 10 fire mere than a fow rounds.
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