We landed in Belgium and
the Germans didn't have time to dig in,
cause they went so fast,
we got them on the run and they
settled down into Holland.
They dug in there. But then in that time,
the front line was moving so fast (inaudible)
is what I call them,
we had tried taking up the supply and
mostly the gasoline so first we would
travel in six trucks, the convoy and we could put
250 tins, of jerry tins on the back of our
truck and go and off load them and
after we off load and go back and
get another load and just kept going.
I drove for around 36, 36 or 37 hours without
stopping just long enough to load, you know.
Loading and eating hard tacks and
bully beef in the truck and keep going,
a couple of the guys drove for 40 some hours.
And so we figured it wasn't going fast enough so
we travelled in three trucks
then we could move faster.
And we got so that we could,
if we got up close to where they had the
big stack piles of jerry tins and
the Englishman was running them and
the Englishman they'd come and load our trucks
but they'd fall in line of each other, you know,
so we'd tell them to get out of the way so
we'd get right in close, one guy we'd have a
co-driver and my co-driver would stand down and
he'd chuck them up to me and I'd load them.
We could load about 250 tins in about 15 minutes,
just steady go.