my company, the company, went to a lake in the interior of .ngland, great yarmouth when i got there, we were going to train in floating tanks. i thought, i don't know who came up with this. the england dutch english said it was going to be a secret weapon. i wished at the time that they had cap the secret to themselves and left us out of it. [laughter] havehe tankseir a large canvas screen that went up -- i can are about all that screen was. -- i can't remember how tall that screen was. and being theer, driver, i had to control all these controls. when we drove off into that lake, when it got to floating and they let the propellers down and put the tank in first gear and just take off. periscope so i could see where i was going, where i wanted to go. i didn't get there all the time, but it was where i wanted to go. [laughter] while, trained on the balentine tank. we just had a crew of four and a sherman tank has a crew of five. we transferred down to the south part of england and got a sherman tank which was called tank.nk -- a dd to the latter part of may. i don't know the dates. th