Casualties on Hill 355

Mostly, if you were five men in a crew, you know them five men and you might know the next tank over. But you don't know anybody in different crews, different, different troops. See, in the, the armoured corps we only had one squadron in Korea, which is twenty tanks, and maybe four more was, was headquarters. So, we had five men to a tank, and we didn't have the whole regiment. We just had one squadron, so we were less than any of other people there in Korea. But we fought like hell.
On 355, I was there in October 22nd, 23rd, and . . . 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, and we got her for three days straight. We got one guy killed. Gordie Waldner got killed. We had one fellow won the Military Medal, Roy Stevenson(sp.), yeah. And we got her for three or four days straight, and there was 18 RCRs killed and about four or five, I think, taken prisoner, and lots, lots wounded. We had . . . My loader was wounded and the code guy was wounded, and I just got scared. Everything scared me

Interviewer: Were you afraid?

Well, I had three weeks to go home, and that's when you usually get it. I didn't want to get it three weeks. And I got out of there in three weeks safely. All except for this.