How do we contribute to this project?
Dave
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From: rcd-association-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
[mailto:rcd-association-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Patricia
Radley-Walters
Sent: February 27, 2009 8:42 PM
To: norm.wood2@sympatico; rcd-association
Subject: [DragNet] Restoration of World War 11 Firefly Sherman
Tank;Etobicote Collegiate Firefly Committee
Congratulations. To you all: Thank you all for such a
wonderful and ambitous project which will take you hours and hours to
complete. Thanks for bringing a tearful smile on an old tankers face from
young enthusiastic tankers. Istarted off my career with a 75 mm tank and
later graduated to a 17 pounder. In the close country I liked the 75 mm on
the tank. In the open country where one could see I preferred the 17
pounder which I understand you are reparing. Did you know that the nickname
for the Sherman tank was "The Ronson" after the cigarette lighter? We
didn't have too many minutes to escape. I still have a scar on the top of
my head where the others underneath me used my head as a battering ram to
open the top of the tank and escape! We all got out!! Alive!!!
The soldiers who worked on these tanks during the war were
youngsters like yourselves from every part of Canada. My life was changed
forever through my association with them.
You obtained your tank from Worthington Park at Camp
Borden, which was built by those who came home from the war and our
wonderful General Worthington who gave us so much. Best of luck. Be proud
of you project and I hope it is very successful. I am very honoured that
you named your tank after me. Thank you very much.
God Bless. Rad Radley-walters
Thank you
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