Painting Hats

There was a craze on, everybody painting their tin hats. And of course, I got the bright idea, if I was to paint a bright blue swastika on the top of my tin hat, if a German plane come over, he wouldn’t machine gun me. Wow, that didn’t go down very well. Didn’t go down at all. So I was put on a charge, and I had to work in the cook house for ten days scrubbing pots and pans, but that taught me a lesson right then and there.