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Рубрики WWII; Танки; Версия для печати

Кстати, есть упоминание, куда его вызвали для службы в Милиции


Munich had scared everyone, and a spirit of urgent preparation was prevalent everywhere. Everyone knew that the balloon was about top go up, so it was no surprise when, on my twenty-first birthday, I received my call up papers with my birthday cards. They were lying on the doormat along with the silver paper “Keys of the Door”.


I was instructed to report to the 13th tank regiment at Warminster in Wiltshire on the 15th of July 1939.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/94/a2064494.shtml

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Our training finished around Christmas, and we were all put on draft to join our regiments. Joe Rayson, Aggie and I were to report to Ringwood in Hampshire and join the 2nd Tanks.

I was allocated as a spare crew attached to the scout troop. It came as a great surprise to me to see how well equipped the tank corps was. There were tanks galore, and fifteen scout cars, all equipped with the new type of gun, the “Bren”