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- A7431347
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- Bill Horn
- Location of story:听
- Persian Gulf
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A7440428
- Contributed on:听
- 01 December 2005
I was living in Offham in 1943 when I was called up and went into the army and I was drafted overseas to The Persian Gulf.
I was then in a unit called a vehicle assembly unit. Crates from America used to come with lorry chassis and all the bits stacked round them and we used to build a hundred lorries a day and they'd be transported to Russia. Just down the road from us was the RAF and they built planes on the same basis. Further down on the river at Basra there was an American unit in Persia (Iran) where they built armoured stuff and this all went to Russia.
We worked flat out for a year; a hundred lorries a day and towards the end two hundred. Then they were stored and used when the second front opened; D Day on our side of the world; and this was what this was used for. We built it all out there.
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