11-11-2020, 12:54 AM
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Re: remembrance day
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Originally Posted by RalphG
I've probably posted this one of my dad before but this was at training camp in Shilo, Manitoba, 1941 so that Ford woodie wagon would have been fairly new at the time. He went on to see some exciting times in the 18th anti-tank battery. First vehicle he learned to drive on was Ford army trucks. Later graduated to gun towers and Valentine/Archer tanks. He had some stories to tell.
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"We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969
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