Running time
50 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
one day I had to go up into the far northwest of the province. So there were armoured personnel carriers parked in a line and they've always got room to carry extra gear so you always get a cup of tea when you go to the armoured people. Well I'm having a cup of tea behind an armoured personnel carrier and next minute, this enormous explosion.
I thought, “Oh my god, what's that?” Had it been an armoured personnel carrier it would've put him into orbit but a Centurion tank happened to go up the same track and it's wider than an APC and it encountered the mine. Blew the track off the Centurion tank and there was a hole about nine foot deep in the dirt. So, you all have a bit of a laugh at the hole, but these things happen.
