Interview with Harry Hacker. Two

Interview with Harry Hacker. Two

Description of a painting of dropping supplies as partisans waved to the crew.

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HH: — into this village was a bridge that was either they had blown it up or the Germans we don’t know. But on the broken edge of this bridge was a whole crowd of these partisans and all the villagers waving to us because we went in, we were about five hundred to nine hundred feet something or other with the stuff. Dropped the supplies. They were waving to us so we thought we’d give them a treat. So what we did we flew between the two broken wing edges and there were the people standing over the edge of the bridge waving like mad. So I told my daughter in law about this and she’s a bit of an artist.
Interviewer: Right.
HH: I said, ‘Well, I’ll draw some sketches up.’ And she’s done a picture for me for my birthday.
Interviewer: Oh right.
HH: Of the operation.
Interviewer: Right.
HH: She’s put in some amendments to it now.
Interviewer: Oh, fantastic.
HH: We’ve got the sketches I think in there.
Interviewer: Oh, that would be wonderful yeah.
HH: Yeah.