Re: False alarm
Posted by John Haynes on April 27, 2011, 9:29 am, in reply to "
False alarm"
Bob, my most embarrassing was not a False Alarm but a real one. Off loading at the docks in Murmansk we had been under air attack almost constantly. During a lull I went forward to my quarters in the fo’c’s’le and fell into an exhausted sleep. Another air attack, and when GQ was sounded I did not hear it. A bomb exploded just off our port bow, the concussion of which threw me out of my bunk. Dazed and terrified I grabbed my jacket and helmet and ran to my gun tub only to find it already manned and firing at enemy aircraft. I could only stand there, shaking with fear, embarrassed and ashamed that I had failed to be at my post at GQ. John Haynes
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