Geoff Chapman - Fatalism and wounding
Running time
1 min 10 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
"I remember very well. I didn't smoke much. I had a cigarette occasionally. I decided smoking was stupid and I gave it up for about three months.
They got us up at 4am. We hit the beach at 8am. Four hours. In that four hours I smoked 40 cigarettes. Never gave it up for a long time.
So that was, the actual invasion, you know, it wasn't too bad, we, I don't know, I guess you get to the stage that you feel that if you're shot, you're shot, you know, and it scares you a bit but what could you do about it and I've had bullets pretty close to me and I did get shot eventually.
That wasn't a bad wound but it put me in hospital or convalescent depot for about three months."
