Camaraderie

I remember one time we were all sleeping in a church hall one night; we were glad, it was really wet out and we were sleeping in a row and this guy Casey Arnold and his brother; we were all in 12 Platoon and...12 Platoon or "B" Company had the most brothers of any company in the battalion and I had my brother Mel with me there. He was, by this time he was a full corporal and I was a lance corporal, a one-striper. But we were sleeping on the floor and this Casey Arnold, oh he was a character, really. He grabbed his rifle and he says, "I'm a rootin' tootin' six- gun shootin' cowboy from Kalamazoo, Michigan." Wham, wham, wham, like that, fired, and this old building had these steel rods that were holding the sides in and would you believe that one of those 303s hit that rod and ricocheted and hit his brother in the forehead. It was a kinda spent piece of metal. I always remembered that. Casey Arnold his brother was named Jackie. Both of them survived the Dieppe raid and both were POW's, and survived and I've met them at reunions long after the war.