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Recording Details: Frank Vickery:

***This interview is

SIDE A only,

SIDE B is an interview with Rich Wilson.

SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:08:34 Discussion about signing up for the navy in 1941 and serving on the HMCS Chambly, with mention of convoys across the Atlantic; WWII, Royal Navy, 1941, HMCS Chambly, corvette, sick birth attendant, navy, seasickness, depth charges, fog, convoys, storms. 

SIDE A 00:08:34 -- 00:15:05 Discussion about picking up survivors from sunken ships and his service on the HMCS Chambly, with mention of sinking a U-Boat; survivors, HMCS Chambly, corvettes, U-Boats, German submarines, WWII. 

SIDE A 00:15:05 -- 00:19:39 Discussion about Churchill, mail from home, going on leave in London, and blackouts; WWII, Winston Churchill, war letters, London, blackouts, convoys, blitzes. 

SIDE A 00:19:39 -- 00:24:25 Discussion about food, navy terms, and what it was like on the corvettes; WWII, milk, rations, corvettes, red lead and bacon, hammocks, danger pay, 1945. 

SIDE A 00:24:25 -- 00:27:02 Discussion about working as a nursing orderly after the war, depth charges, and being drafted to work in Scotland; Camp Hill, depth charges, hedgehogs, Scotland, WWII. 

SIDE A 00:27:02 -- 00:28:11 Discussion about seeing a production of Hamlet while he was in Scotland; Sir John Gilguid, Hamlet, Scotland. 

SIDE A 00:28:11 -- 00:39:24 A story about a dentist and oranges; oranges, WWII. 

SIDE A 00:39:24 -- 00:31:00 Discussion about Gibraltar; Gibraltar, U-Boats, German submarines, WWII. 
 Tape ends at 00:31:00.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Vickery, Frank N.

Playing Time:
00:31:00

Interview Date(s):
2000-02-10

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Frank N. Vickery of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Frank talks about his service in the navy during WWII, sailing on the HMCS Chambly, U-Boats, survivors, depth charges, mail, leave, Scotland, Churchill, and various other topics related to his service.

Place(s) Discussed:
Scotland; Gibraltar

Time(s) Discussed:
WWII, 1945, 1941

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