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Description
Mr. Gouchie recalls a time when he was almost run over by a tank.
Transcription
Sometimes you couldn't do nothing about it because you'd be shelled so heavy, you know maybe someone was out there in the grain field hollering for help. You couldn't get out there to help him any, cause it was just suicide, even to try it. I pretty near got run over by one of my own tanks one time.
Interviewer: Can you tell us about that?
Well, we were moving up and we come under the most . . . shellfire was something terrible and I heard . . . felt this . . . heard this . . . and the shells coming, you know and there was a little bank there along the side of the road and I just threw myself behind that. And, I was laying there and all of a sudden I heard, felt the ground vibrating. And I look up and this big track was over top of me. It was a good thing it was the outside of the tank, cause I rolled over some quick and I just got over and he came up in the air, you know, when he come over that mound of mud. When he came over, his track came down and slammed down there. If I hadn't rolled I would have been right underneath the track. It was just a short while after that, we got behind this hedge and a tank came right barrelling through the hedge. He pretty near run over this other guy. The poor guy in the tank, he couldn't see behind the hedge and we could see him coming. We couldn't even hear him. There was so much noise. The artillery exploding around you.