About the Japanese.

This story was submitted to the people war Website by a volunteer from Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life on behalf of Allen Weatherley.

ALLEN WEATHERLEY

The doodlebugs they looked as if they were coming up the river. I was stationed at Woolwich. It’s alright while they were going. As soon as the engine cut out you knew it would explode. We had steel helmets.

When the Japanese captured Sumatra we then had to go back and retake it and one of the things was when they dropped the atom bomb. It was either them or us. It was all over. The Japanese were on the dockyard with cups of tea for us. We didn’t want their cups of tea. When they had surrendered and we’d taken over their vehicles the general had a pennant mast on the staff car, they had to stand to attention and salute but the lorry was still moving so they all tumbled over. We were laughing and the General called out “there’s a war still on”.

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