Convoy of 14 Fuel Bowsers - Ron Rockey
In November 1952, word was received to the effect that 14 white refuelling tenders were at Le Havre and were awaiting pickup. Sixteen military personnel were selected to go to Le Havre and drive the vehicles to Grostenquin, It was an uneventful trip except for a small car running into the front right side of one of the tenders and disabling it. One thing I do remember to this day was that some of the windshield wiper blades had been stolen from the tenders. Sgt. Norm Burke, a heavy equipment operator, disappeared for an hour or so and returned with a bag of potatoes. Those of us with no wiper blades were told to cut a potatoe in half and rub the open part of the potatoe on the windshield. The starch in the potatoe made the windshield shed water in the event of an encounter with rain.