HEADING TO THE FALKLANDS WAR Bomb disposal team
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Interviewee name: John Phillips
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Bomb disposal Sergeant Major John Phillips had already dealt with defusing hundreds of unexploded bombs until he was tasked to head out to the Falklands on HMS Canberra with his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott. He talks about the equipment he needed to take with them (2 tons of it!) and how scarily no one really knew what they were heading into...
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from Stuart Prebble 2009-04-11 06:03:32
It's endlessly fascinating to listen to John Phillips. He is so "matter of fact" about having defused "hundreds" of unexploded bombs - any one of which would have caused the rest of us to have a nervous breakdown. And the fact that he was so keen to get down to the Falklands to see active service - having trained for it for so long - is so typical of men's attitudes to war - usually before they actually experience the reality.
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