News of the Dieppe Disaster

Well our reaction, we heard the, you know, the stories were confused coming back but I met , I met a chap from the HLI (inaudible) and he came back and he said it was a, you know, it was a real, you know they just got in there and they were shooting and said it was just, they must have been... They were, the Germans were, something happened, I think they were aware that. I don’t know what it was but he said it was a real, a real disaster.

Interviewer: Did it dampen the spirits of you men in the 5th anti air craft battery?

No, not really. I think most of us were saying we got, you know we’ve been over here since, we’ re talking, nearly a year and a half. So we were, I think we were, I thought the people were ready to do something, most of our gang. We’d been there away from home so lets stay and see how the things were going.