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| Near Turnhout, Belgium |
During the evening of Jan 2nd. was when we had our next bit of excitement.
I had got on watch at five o'clock and was sitting in our receiver van when a little while later there came a terrific crash, the van lifted, the trap doors came up and all the power went off. I switched on the ancillary lights to see if there was damage in the van but there didn't seem to be any except that the bench that the radios were on had come adrift. I then opened the door and jumped outside. As it was dark I couldn't see very much at first but I could hear a lot of kids screaming in a house next to us. A couple of the boys went around there and I went down the field towards another vehicle where I could hear someone shouting. By this time my eyes had become accustomed to the darkness and I could see a little way. I soon began clambering over large lumps of earth anything up to 2ft across and I had to made a detour to avoid falling over. I eventually reached our transmitter van and found one of the mechanics crawling from under the van. When all the facts were known it transpired that a V2 [1/2] had landed in the field between the two vans, leaving a crater 15 ft deep and 30 ft across.
As the ground was soft the blast rose up from the crater at a high
And there the diary ends, mid sentence. Spoiler alert: he lived to tell the tale and bring back the diary, of course, but I suppose that "sh*t just got real" and finally, heeded the ban on writing a diary.
- V-2 rocket
- Jan. 02, (17:34 hours) - Batt. 3./485, (Site 131), V-2 rocket fired, impacted near Turnhout a few km from the Belgium-Netherlands border
