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Description
Mr. McGee tells how his parents weren’t aware that he was a prisoner until an agent wired them and told them their son had been freed.
Transcription
You think a lot about home and my mother kept me alive I think, you know just...
Interviewer: So there was no communication, was she aware?
Two and a half years before they found out. And when they, when I was free, when we were home ah, my dad was station agent outside of, out of, Regina and between Regina and Holdfast ( inaudible ) his town was a little town called Craven and the agent there wired him one morning and said "Your son has been freed"
Interviewer: Oh wow, good feeling.
That's how they found out.
Interviewer: So there was no communication, was she aware?
Two and a half years before they found out. And when they, when I was free, when we were home ah, my dad was station agent outside of, out of, Regina and between Regina and Holdfast ( inaudible ) his town was a little town called Craven and the agent there wired him one morning and said "Your son has been freed"
Interviewer: Oh wow, good feeling.
That's how they found out.
Catégories
"Your Son Has Been Found"
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
Seconde Guerre mondiale
Emplacement géographique
Hong Kong
Campagne
Hong Kong
Personne interviewée
John McGee
Branche
Armée
Unité ou navire
<em>Winnipeg Grenadiers</em>
Military Rank
Corporal
Occupation
Infanterie
Durée
00:46