Robert E. Irion, Sandy, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, September 20, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 537, 538, and 539

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Rob rt . Irion eptember 20•h 2002 y u d li t n to it and as long as the engine was running then you didn't have to worry about it. If it kept on going you'd say, "Okay." A couple of times when they cut out, I pulled the covers up a little higher up over my head and said, "Well, it isn't that close." We didn't have any get close to us. There was one that actually did hit near our base before I got there but not while I was there. In London the V -2's became the weapon that was the scary one in London. The V -l's had kind of died out of importance and they were shooting these big old V -2 rockets that were huge explosives and a city block would go up in just "Bam!" like that. But it was so hit and miss, you know, that it - you figured your chances were nil. BEN: Being twenty-one and being in London, were the English women interested in American GI' s? ROB: Oh, there were a lot of friendly girls, yeah! BEN: I mean aside- obviously, there's prostitution that goes on. ROB: Oh, yeah. That too. But there were a lot of very nice girls that you'd meet at these dances. They'd come just to have fun and dance like we were going to have fun and dance at a Red Cross Club or at our base dances and so on. They were just local, local girls from Cambridge that they'd bring out. I'd met a couple of girls in London that I dated later, you know, afterwards too. But I mean, I say after combat ended. But not- never any real tie. We had - some of our guys met girls there that they married. BEN: Yeah. 122