Discusses working on logistics for troop movements

Eyes at the front - it an article by Squadron leader Kemp but the photographs show 15071 unit which was a similar unit to ours, everything the CO didn't have photographs of our own units so he used this one and that is a very interesting one tells about trip what I just mentioned briefly up to Grave and I think the reason why and I have no proof of this, but 2 small radar units were sent in by gliders and they got shot up and any of the men that managed to survive had just to take up ordinary airforce duties and shoot where the could, you see and em so I think that is the reason why we were sent up there. It says B echelon, A echelon always went up first and I could never understand why it was a B echelon, but evidently the powers that be said Type 13 and Type 11 had to go. And so I missed out on it, now I wish I had been.

Diverting here slightly, the out- what was known as FDTs, they have could stand for anything Modern Day Transport, but it was a ship I think it was an LST and they for ballast put of lumps of concrete in the hold an then they put a radar unit on it and why this is of particular interests me is that eh a civilian friend of mine Max Nearly was on this mobile, on this FDT, 3 of them in the channel, FDP Forward Director Posts of what was aircraft, we would know what was happening see and it wasn't until many years later that I found out that he was on MDT 217 so they were there just before us, we got there into France, we were supposed to get there on June the 10th, but we got there on June the 11th and we got operational on June the 12th. After we had been to Malsbroek sorry after we had been to Travemunde about June the 9th we were sent to up to Leck Aerodrome in Schleswig-Holstein. And there's a flying bomb without the wings, and without the nose, nose-cone. Also at Flamesberg was this ME 262, sorry Heinkel ME 262 which to me was a bit dodgy because they, the jet engine was bolted on top of the plane and just behind the pilot's head so if he was to try and go out through the cockpit I assume he would get sucked into the engine.

This was up at Leck, we did nothing at all up at Leck, it was just passing the time, and I learned since that one of the eh reasons for the Germans capitulating was that we had to go and occupy Sledgvic Holstein. Because they did not want the Russians in that area. It was all sorta political you see any way that's why we were sent up there you see more or less as an occupational - occupational bid. Now this is Bonninghart, before we went across the Rhine and this was, and this hut here - Ashgill and Hind - 2 radar boys they just went out and they got the sections of the hut and a roof and we used this as our mess mess-office just for our gang. This was Harry Greenhan he was the driver of the Type 15 and I was his mate with him. This was Harry Greenham having a wash and brush up. Johnny Clark having 40 winks, and this I don't know who he is so I classed him as an under cover man. Eh at that time we had very, you could take these small photographs.

15054 I left on September the 25th 1945 to go back to the UK and eh I've heard since from boys, at the time of the Berlin Airlift, they were controlling the planes going in and the planes were going in about every third minute and if a plane was late it had to go back, come back again. //

That's one of the boats - can you capture that - you hold so - that's Sergeant Mitchell, that's me Harold Asg-, Hind and Ashgill two bosom pals that I'll tell a story about them in a minute, theres sergeant Jim Poulter, now he would be one of the older people on the unit and looking back he was like a father to us. And eh one of his tips of advice was wi' jumping off a lorry without lowering the tailboard, and the rim of the tailboard was a metal strip with a hollow in it like that, screwed in. And we used to just jump over top it. We were young lads you see, and now lads he says if you're jumping off the back of a lorry, just make sure the screws aren't sticking up, you catch a ring on it you see. Well a few years later I was in the Fire Brigade in Huddersfield and one of the boys there jumped off the top of a van and lo and behold, his ring caught on a screw that was proud and he had the Sclichh - blood all over the place.