Charlie Jackson

“We woke up one morning and the submarine, which was supposed to be part of our convoy, had disappeared. It was an English submarine and I think it was a cruiser, an Indian cruiser, that was also out with us for a couple of … was with us for a week and a half, and it had disappeared so we wondered what was happening. Well the next morning after that we woke up, we found out that about 8 or 10 of our ships had been torpedoed and we were in the middle there with a panoramic view of all these oil ships burning around us and so on. Just like watching a horrible movie. And 2 or 3 ships carrying aircrafts on board were sunk and these were freighters. They only travel around 8 or 10 miles an hour. And then orders came from the headquarters in England to disperse and get out of there as fast as we could.”