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Memories of Service 2 - Joseph Pedersen
Web (Full Length) – 2016
Boom, boom, and the whole ship would shake. And every time it did that I’d have to change my nappies. They called me Chicken Joe after that. I wasn’t a very brave sailor.– Joseph Pedersen
We were the only one of eight destroyers that survived the war. It’s all the hail Mary’s I said you see.– Joseph Pedersen
On your hammock you had your duffle coat on and you went to bed with all those clothes, you never took them off. The only thing you took off was sea boots. And you slept for six weeks like that.– Joseph Pedersen
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