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We worked flat out for a year in The Persian Gulf; assembling a hundred lorries a day and towards the end two hundred. Then we spent eighteen months driving them to Russia.

We left there and came down into Egypt. We actually travelled from Basra to Baghdad by train and then from Baghdad down to Alexandra in Egypt by convoy. We then crossed into Jordan and came into Palestine where we found that war in Europe had been over for two days. Jews were coming out to form Israel and they were the terror gangs in those days, not the Palestinians who were the defenders. We did the same there as we'd done in the Persian Gulf for The Second Airbourne Division who went into Palestine. They did exactly the same there as we did when we went up to Russia.

Then we started clearing up the desert. We were there with lorries bringing back the wrecks of the tanks and some of them unfortunately were full of skeletons. They'd been there a while.

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