Box Car Ride

At first we thought we were lucky to get on box cars but found out that was the worst place to be in Germany. By night the R.A.F. would bomb the marshalling yards and by day our fighters would strafe the engine and most of the cars. Over a dozen times our fighters were overhead, but I was never with a group at the time of a strafing. Some of the men that had been through that experience told of hearing the planes dive and then the bullets rip through the cars and set them on fire. The small bombs the planes carried would hit the engine and cause a terrific explosion. I am glad I missed that experience for I had enough without it.