Thread: The "Island"
View Single Post
Old 28-03-2008, 11:12 PM   #3 (permalink)
sapper
WW2 Veteran
 
sapper's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,412
sapper has a spectacular aura aboutsapper has a spectacular aura about
I was given the job of going over the bridge not long after it had been taken, Steel structure with infantry men with brens and rifels, watching for sea mines being floated down the river .The enemy hoped to hit the bridge and blow it.

If my memory serves me right? on the Island I found a Engineering place? With a concrete hard standing? On the right hand side of the road driving towards Arnhem...
(nearly 64 years ago) I never went further, the road was straddled with shell fire and I had enough.
Sapper
sapper is online now   Reply With Quote