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Show ROBERT W. HAT H 27 p B R 2002 for the night. Then we ll pick it up in the morning and drive back to th ba . I w nt in to the police and told them I was here with the truck parked out front and we 11 pick it up in the morning. So we went in and went to the hotel went to bed. Got up the next morning, had breakfast, went out, got ready to go. And no truck. BB: And you signed for it, of course. RH: Yes. It was gone. So I went to the police and said, "Hey, where's my truck?" They said "Well, the shift that left didn't say anything about a truck. We don't know anything about a truck." "Well, thanks." So I got on the phone with the local constabulary, the local police, and I told them someone had stolen our truck. I was American, and somebody had taken our truck. BB: Did you tell them what kind of truck it was? RH: He said, "Was that a big round truck that's got a big bell and something up on top?" He didn't know what it was. They didn't even know it was American. And I said "Yeah!" He says, "We've got it up here." In those days, when you parked a vehicle on the street, you had to leave a little parking-they had little tiny slits in the lights. You know, we couldn't have lights. BB: Right, blackout. RH: They'd be all blacked out. But you'd have little tiny slits on the vehicles. If you left them on the street, you had to leave a little bit of slit light on. I didn't, so they removed the vehicle. Pried the door open. They said, "We had a terrible time." They said "We thought it was a British truck, we didn't know it was American." I said, "You guys!" Anyway, I was glad to get it back, because that's the one that would go back to the base. 41 |
