How did you feel when the war was over and we had won?

It was a great feeling of adrenaline and I could tell you that I was home on leave at the time and the fact that we actually survived the war and we could live a normal life it was just incredible – because of the pressure of the 5 years when we never knew when you were going to be killed, and there was lots of ways you could have been killed.

I was almost killed with a V-2 once. A ballistic missile fell near our camp down in England and killed our horse out in the field and right away I went down to the crater and I picked up this piece of this V-2. It could fly up about three miles into the sky and you didn’t hear it coming.

There was no way you could stop it. Fortunately the soldiers form the American and British army and the Canadians moved very quickly in France after the D-Day and they eliminated all the bases with these terrible weapons where they had been sent from.

The V-1 was a guiding missile and it flew quite low and it eventually ran out of fuel, and it fell in the city and all these missiles had been directed towards London. The psychological effect of this weapon was really terrible when it came over.