Description
Mr. Adamson tells a funny story about the shooting range.
John Eldon Adamson
John Adamson was born on September 7, 1920. Mr. Adams was raised in the prairies and worked the harvest in the Brandon area before joining the army with his cousin who lived nearby. He was sent to Kingston where he was trained as a mechanic. Mr Adamson had a brother who was a paratrooper and a sister who was in the peace time army. His service overseas was generally focused on maintenance and repair of vehicles with the Royal Canadian Electrical Engineers. He also remembers being taken away from his mechanic duties to ride shotgun on supply runs with rations or mortar supplies. During his service he was injured by friendly fire by his own air force.
Transcript
It was really interesting to get into a place like Kingston with first rate training in the line of thing that I was going to be in. Something that stayed with me and still does. The fellow that I chummed with, he was a clerk and he come from Toronto. Never shot in his life. He could not hit the target. Well, if there was anything I didn’t want to be was a good shooter so I always had one or two of my bullets went into his target and the rest went into mine and they could never figure out, why if you can shoot that good, why can’t you shoot them all. God damn it, I can’t just overcome that you know, and he was happy as hell to get two in his. So we had our joke between us there.
Metadata
Training in Kingston, Ontario
Medium
Video
Owner
Veterans Affairs Canada
War or Conflict Term
Second World War
Person Interviewed
John Eldon Adamson
Branch
Army
Occupation
Mechanic
Duration
0:58
