MERT

  • John Murnane
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

It always sharpened people

if there was contact. I

the enemy were close going in there or B.

if it was somebody

because then you against the clock,

you've got the golden hour

the diamond 15 minutes or whatever

just as soon as possible.

and history will recall,

Bastion at the time was the biggest trauma

It was the place for that.

And by the time we dropped them off there,

then it was it was always,

always brilliant here in the news,

maybe a week or two, later, Oh,

Yeah, they’re, they’re okay.

And stuff like that.

And it was always bad

And you are out and about in the camp

You think that you can hear it,

but you can also hear

It makes a different noise when it's just

and you hear one coming fast,

And then you see it

to the airfield,

And you think yeah fingers crossed.

And that was always,

you could see it on the faces of people

oh, ok. Fingers crossed.

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