Interview with Daniel Lynch

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Australian mess boy served with Norwegian Merchant Navy in Australian coastal waters, 1942; seaman served with Norwegian Merchant Navy aboard tanker MV Marina in Indian Ocean, 1942-1943; aircraftman served as flight rigger with Royal Australian Air Force in Australia, 1943-1945; private served with 1st Bn Royal Australian Regt, 28th Commonwealth Infantry Bde, 1st Commonwealth Div in South Korea, 4/1952-3/1953

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REEL 1 Background in Fremantle, Australia, 1925-1942: family; life in Fremantle; attitude to world events; decision to join Australian Merchant Navy, 1942; impressions of Americans; question of pressure to enlist in armed forces; degree of awareness of First World War events; reaction to Japanese entry into Second World War, 12/1941; attitude towards Japanese; attitude towards General Gordon Bennett's deserting his troops in Singapore, Malaya, 2/1942; opinion of General Douglas MacArthur; reaction to Japanese bombing of Darwin. Aspects of period as mess boy with Norwegian Merchant Navy in Australian coastal waters, 1942: joining Norwegian Merchant Navy as mess boy; conditions during first voyage aboard Norwegian tramp steamer from Fremantle to Melbourne; accommodation. REEL 2 Continues: attitude of Norwegian crewmen; in dry dock in Melbourne; running aground on Wilsons Promontory; daily routine as mess boy; towing off of ship; leaving ship in Melbourne; joining D/S Marosa; superstitions of merchant seamen; question of swimming. Aspects of period as merchant seaman aboard M/T Marina in Indian Ocean, 1942-1943: joining ship; clash with Iraqi civilians over prayer in Iraq; move to Durban, South Africa; anti-mining precautions taken; action stations; attitude to serving on oil tanker; German Navy submarine scare. REEL 3 Continues: attitude to war situation; impressions of South African civilians; attitude of Norwegian crew; ashore in Bombay, India; paying off in Melbourne. Aspects of period as flight rigger with Royal Australian Air Force in Australia, 1943-1945: reasons for joining air force, 6/1943; duties as airframe fitter with 25 Sqdn, Royal Australian Air Force; participation in operation over British Borneo; accommodation; attitude towards wartime service; relations with American forces; degree of awareness of wider war situation; victory celebrations, 1945; attitude to return to civilian life and war service. REEL 4 Continues: Aspects of period as merchant seaman with Australian Merchant Navy in Australian coastal waters, 1945-1950: joining SS Ramsey; promotion to fireman; strike over conditions; degree of political awareness. Aspects of enlistment and training with Australian Army in Australia and Japan 1951: reasons for enlistment in K Force; contrast between different armed services; orders not to wear uniform in Fremantle; training in Japan. Recollections of operations as private with 1st Bn Royal Australian Regt, 28th Commonwealth Infantry Bde, 1st Commonwealth Div in South Korea, 4/1952-3/1953: reasons for throwing helmets away on arrival at Pusan, 4/1952; use of 'snooper' scopes on patrol; relieving Canadian forces on Hill 355; reaction to being under mortar fire on patrol. REEL 5 Continues: attack on Hill 227; reaction to being under mortar fire and shelling; description of static positions; stand to and breakfast; clearing up after Canadian Army regiment; patrolling; lack of threat from mines; setting up ambushes in freezing conditions; wounding during patrol to snatch Chinese People's Volunteer Army prisoner; nature of wounds; reaction to death of comrade wounded in same incident; attitude to being wounded; hospitalisation; relations with New Zealand and other United Nations forces. REEL 6 Continues: pay and obtaining beer from British Army troops; rations; cigarette supplies; opinion of American rations; under fire from Chinese People's Volunteer Army machine guns and PPSh-41 submachine guns; artillery shelling; air support; use of artificial moonlight; opinion of Chinese People's Volunteer Army troops and tactics; question of treatment and shooting of prisoners of war; opinion of young officers; relations between officers and other ranks; amusing incident of putting snow in officer's sleeping bag; washing facilities; leave and rest periods; opinion of service in Korean War; attitude to being volunteered for patrol. REEL 7 Continues: daily routine; attitude to peacetime service in Australia; attitude to return to Australia; reasons for volunteering for second tour of South Korea; awareness of peace talks; attitude of Australian civilians on return from South Korea; amusing story of visit by politician; reaction to end of Korean War, 7/1954; avoiding United States Army patrols; attitude to United Nations. Aspects of civilian life in Australia from 1955: membership of service associations; civilian career; attitude to military service and pension received.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Bannister, John (Recorder)
Lynch, Daniel (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2003-03-22
Dimensions: whole: Duration 210, Number Of Items 7
Catalogue number: 26866

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