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- A1137467
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- 07 August 2003
By Sheila Gaunt:
This is a story about my father, Sydney Talbott, who was stationed out in Burma during the war. Dad would never talk about his experiences, as he said they were too painful, but this one I can remember him talking about.
Dad drove a tank transporter. He was a little person, less than five foot tall, and he used to say that the wheels of the transporter were taller than himself.
During a retreat, a pontoon was hastily constructed across a river. Dad felt that it was not strong enough to take the weight of the transporter, but he was told just to drive the transporter across. The result of this was that the transporter sank and Dad lost his sergeant stripes.
He said he spent many a day after that peeling potatoes.
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