No Place To Hide

We were fortunate enough that they didn’t hit us with the mortar shells they were sending over because we were on the wrong side of the hill and they were hitting the other side. So when it came time to move out and head for Stanley Fort, we had to carry our Bren Guns and as much ammunition as we could and walk down through the roads which were just like you could be walking there and the Japs are sitting on the table over there shooting at you and you were lucky if you got through. They had a small, they called it a two-pounder, it was a small cannon which could be taken all apart in about, oh three to four minutes. The fellows packed them on their backs and up the hills they went. Well here you’d hear “Boom” and you’d look up and you’d see smoke and here they were sitting on top of the hill that you were going by shooting down at ya. So there wasn’t much chance we had there so finally they moved us up to Stanley Fort and there was a great target up there, it was right on top of a hill and their dive bombers would come over and saturate us with these small, they weren’t a big bomb, they were probably 100 pounds or something like that. They’d rain them down and everybody would scramble but lucky enough the buildings up in Stanley Fort were all built on sort of a cement post and you could get underneath and that helped a lot.