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Will Gray

Will Gray was a tank driver in Europe in WW2. Afterwards he became a police detective and is now retired to the east coast of Yorkshire.

“Bail Out!” is a first-hand account of a battle in the late fall of 1944. At the end of the flashes of furious combat, one memory brings home the author’s humanity:

I was too busy to worry about that. I was promising myself I was going to survive and at that time I was crawling along the dyke to get rid of a German who was in our way.

Fortunately, he decided not to wait for me and legged it across the open field with a hail of gunfire after him. I never fancied his prospect of living with the amount of gunfire being let loose on him. Even to this day I’ve always wondered if he made it.

In a sense, this memoir is written like a letter, from one of “the Greatest Generation” to those who follow.

Will Gray’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Will Gray. We’ll have a poem of yours on line in time for Remembrance Day.