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Description
After the initial attack they had to search all the buildings one by one.
Frank Rusling
Frank Rusling est né à Belton, Lincolnshire, Angleterre, le 30 janvier 1922. Son père a fait déménager sa famille dans le comté de Suffolk, en Angleterre, où il a grandi. Il s'est enrôlé dans la Marine royale à l'âge de 15 ans parce qu'il adorait l'océan. Il est entré au service des communications de la Marine et a reçu l'instruction en signalisation visuelle. Il était très doué dans ce domaine et a rapidement gravi les échelons pour atteindre le grade de timonier. Le premier navire sur lequel il a servi fut le HMS Sheffield. Toutefois, il a travaillé sur d'autres navires et s'est rendu dans diverses parties du monde avec la Marine royale. Après la guerre, il a joint les rangs des policiers du Canadien Pacifique, où il a travaillé pendant 30 ans. Il habite aujourd'hui à Saint John, Nouveau-Brunswick.
Transcription
An interesting feature of this was that we searched, had to search all these buildings on the shore and I remember kicking open a door into an office area at the end of one of these warehouse things and I think I saw a grey black man that night because he was, he was sleeping in this office on a little cot that was about 6 inches off the floor. And the 20mm bullets are stitched, how they missed his face and body I don't know. They were just that much, and he was just lying on there shaking like a leaf and anyhow we left him to his, to his, we didn't bother with him, he was not offensive, not offensive at all. We left him to sort of come out of his shock but it must have been quite a shock for him too. And we, we took over the village there, the town hall and established things there. After four days, I also joined a smaller party and we took a boat up one of the tributaries one night and we had to reach a rather large river where there was a, they had to cross by a small bridge or a pontoon, a ferry-type thing. And it was merely to get behind the enemy and create a diversion.