![]() ![]() The Germans used this - but the British didn't bother. It transpired that colour-blind people can 'see through' camoulflage - I certainly could. The Sergeant said afterwards I was ‘a first-class shot’ in the Regiment - at least I think that's what he said!! I read the numbers as they appeared to me and was pronounced colour-blind. I explained my problem and the Medical Officer was summonsed bringing with him a book with circles of coloured dots. The target was completely destroyed.Ī Sergeant shouted 'Fall in two men' and I was escorted to the Guard Room and charged. Shells were identified by coloured rings and in my colour confusion I had loaded an armour-piercing high-explosive shell. One day we had our tanks at Warcop in Cumbria and in training practice I was asked to load a smoke bomb and fire it at a moving target (on rails) on a mountain side 2 miles away. After VE Day we were being trained for jungle warfare in the Far East but thank goodness the atom bomb over Japan stopped that war - a war we could never have really won. I never fired in anger - but had plenty of practice on ranges. I loaded shells (very heavy) into the breech block, took aim and fired. I was trained as a gunner-wireless operator in a tank - sitting next to a large gun or howitzer in the tank's turret. ![]() I first really found I was colour-blind (red and green) in the army.
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