“I see, and how metal are you removing?”
“Don’t know, Sir.”
“You don’t know! then what are you doing here?”
“Watching, Sir.”
“What’s your trade?”
“Precision grinder, Sir.”
“Precision grinder and you don’t know how much metal you’re removing?”
“No, Sir, I was just told to come here and stand by the machine. I don’t think it’s cutting anything.”
Johnny Lockett was not very popular with his superiors after that and I believe he went back to driving the internal gharri.
I think it was about July or August 1945 that I was transferred to Egypt, anyway while we were in transit we read that the Americans had dropped a super bomb on Japan and the consensus among us was, ”There they go, bragging again,” and we put it out of our minds.