We Just Kept Marching

The front lines were joined up at certain points that were rough and ready and well protected and anybody that had to go to the front and were on their way to the front you felt that you were losing the line like they might call for any given number of men from certain areas, say from certain units that they'd been with before and they could afford to take those men out of that unit and put them in the other unit that they wanted them in right away. Like each unit . . . the unit that I was in, in England, the Forestry Corp, there was 20 men withdrawn and I was lucky enough as I thought. And actually it turned out that I was lucky to get in and stay with them. The Forestry Corps people don't know anything about it. It's just to them it's just a small one a small sawmill operating supplying lumber, timber and everything for the front line and where it was ever used in lines. And it was a very important factor in their operations because they were operating almost day and night. No I won't say they were at night, no, but eight hours a day they were operating, sawing and sawing and sawing some of the best oak and timber in that area in France.