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Description
Mr. Knox speaks of how they would put cotton baton in their ears to protect themselves from the noise of the guns.
Transcription
Well how noisy was it? It kind of makes me laugh when I think of what we went through. What did we use for our ears? Cotton baton. We threw away our first field dressing, had a little pocket here stuffed full of cotton baton. That's what you'd put in your ears.
Interviewer: How did you sleep?
I could sleep on a tack. I could . . . you got so tired and you got so used to getting up, running to the guns and then those planes that left France were picked up sometimes on radar and sometimes they like put spotters and that, but they may not come within your sector and that's when you learn the new out language. Rather than be thankful and not to fire. The language was to get you up out of bed, get you down to the guns, get everything uncovered, getting ready for fire and then the planes wouldn't come within firing distance of your target. You could stand around, but anyway that was it.