To survive really seemed to be try and get shelter of some kind. Because of the 12 of us, only eight of us had come back. Four of our crews had gone, including one crew who were on their very first trip it was a sunday, i was in church with my mother and father. And. I remember hearing the bishop, getting up in the pulpit, before his sermon and saying, were now at war with germany, and i thought, how exciting gosh, an adventure. And little did i know what was in store for me. Our division was put in, told to capture the range of hills to the north of tunisia. It took a month of solid fighting. You were shot at, shelled, bombed, mortared everything. And you got that dreadful feeling of. Sickness in your tummy. Oh, god, is this going to be the last time . Sometimes you were lucky. Sometimes you werent. I was lucky. I think, towards the. Towards the end towards the end of april, beginning of may. I think they thought that they were they really had had it. And. They were surrendering quite