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show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways There was a low- formed over the ground about waste high and I shall never forget it as long as I live

The rest of the crew were down in the trench, hopefully asleep.

I don't know whether they were or not.

Sleep was very difficult to get because you were on edge all the time.

And I was staring ahead, as I say, fighting hard to keep my eyes open.

And I heard this creaking noise. Now the Japs

mostly seem to wear leather strapping and that's the noise I heard. Was this

leather creaking? And to my absolute horror out of the mist a line of figures charging forward, running, they didn't shout anything, they didn't say anything, they were just running straight towards us.

So that was Norman Baldler who was in the 25th of goons operating Grant Lee Tanks.

Should we just come down and just call them Lees from now?

Let's just call them Lees. now? Let's just call them Lees.

Okay, he's in a lead tank in the middle of the admin box

on the 9th of February, 1944 and bowed loads and interesting characters,

20 years old, and you can, think one can I sort of only imagine a journey coming

from Dunchurch near Rugby in Warwickshire then Tidworth Camp Bovington then

the next thing he knows he's being issued with Tropical Kit up to Liverpool

sailing out by see yeah never never knowing where you're coming back if at all

then coming into Bombay you know gates of India and all the Bombay, you know Gates of India and all the rest of it, and Pooner,

then Carl Carter, Jungle Training in Ranchi,

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