Marcel Duval (Primary Source)

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We went into Japan, Kobe, and from there we went to Korea. Now there we took a train to – we went pretty well up to the 30th parallel within no time at all. We spent most of our time there just patrolling and all that. And then through that I got a little bit of an explosion there but – a little blow-up to my arm and [unintelligible 00:25] – I got second-degree burns and all that. I spent about six weeks in the hospital for that.

Well we did some patrolling. Of course still training and all that too, still into – I guess in normal days what you’d do in an advance. We had one little trip I thought was very interesting to me. We were asked to go down – three of us – a Lieutenant and I was the NCO and then there was a Private who was driving – and we went down to – it was a peace declared between the two sides, so we went down there with more or less the location where our mines had been at and the same thing for them. The engineers go down to blow them up. Then we came back that night. There was all kinds of rumours about what happened down there with the other guys that got hurt. But it was a normal trip down to the DMZ. And I don’t ever recall anybody else going down there but the three of us. I remember there was a Lieutenant Drew Pepper, and then myself and then the driver.

You know it’s funny, when we were coming back, in Winnipeg we stopped. They had phones for everybody to use but nothing on the radio. She was listening to the radio and all that, that our troops are coming back and all that and I got off in Washago and I was the only one that got off there. And of course it at night, the stop in the dark. I got off and I standing. Until we got in Toronto it was the same way, you got off the train, you got there, no photographers or anything like that, like they did for at the grandstand there you know.