Fighter Pilot Robert W. Lynch and Corporal Lucien Desjardins, Canadians who fought in the Aleutian Islands WWII

Robert W Lynch Profile

Robert W. Lynch was a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 111F Squadron. In early June 1942, the Canadians were sent north to aid the American Army Air Corp (AAC) following the bombing of Dutch Harbor, Alaska and the Japanese invasion of Kiska and Attu in early June 1942. Robert served in the Aleutian Islands from June 1942-June 1943.

Robert W. Lynch was awarded an American Air Medal for his participation in the first fighter escorted bomber mission over Japanese occupied Kiska Island on September 25th, 1942. He was one of only four RCAF pilots that accompanied the Americans on this offensive attack. On that mission, one Japanese Zero floatplane was shot down and crashed into the Bering Sea by RCAF squadron leader Kenneth “Boomer”. It was also said that on that same mission, AAC Squadron leader Maj. John S. Chennault shot down a second Japanese Zero. For their role in the mission, all four Canadian airmen, as well as the American airman, were awarded the distinguished American Air Medal.  

Lucien Desjardins – my in 1941

In the month of May, I was obliged to do a short four month stay in the Canadian armed forces but, this was quickly changed to an indefinite period following changes in the law.

I was sent to the Joliette (prov. Québec) for my basic training. Several days of this training period was spent on firefighting duties further up North.

Later on, I was transferred to Kingston Ontario within the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (RCCS) where everything was done in English. During this training we would frequently be asked to sign up as active members without much success on my part. This is where Bill Lapré became my best friend. We had achance to tryout all l sorts of trades but neither of us two ever singed up as “active” members

I was later transferred to the 6th Division – Signals section. I was tasked to be a dispatch rider (motorbiker rider) and then trained to become a “lineman”. I was promoted to the rank of Corporal.

My commanding officer a Major Bell sent me on a small arms training course at the Long Branch Ont. training centre close to Toronto Ont. where other members of the armed forces joined in from all across Canada.

I became an expert marksmen and champion of the group. Back at my home base, I was tasked to be a small arms training instructor. I then gave the small arms course (always in English) to officers of the 6th Division – Signals Corp. We were later transferred to Vancouver B.C.

After being in Vancouver for a while, I was transferred to Prince Rupert (B.C.) and put in charge of a work group in Terrace to install a communications link. My place of residence was Prince Rupert where I would prepare a weekly report for transmittal to Vancouver.

Later on, I was returned to Vancouver to join a training group in Nanaimo. The intensive training lasted several weeks.

During this time all correspondence was being held back and a short time after our training was completed we embarked on a ship called HMCS Prince David and headed over to Victoria but no one was allowed to get off the ship which departed on our mission the next morning. It was on open seas that we were informed that our destination would be the Aleutian Islands for fighting the Japanese army!!

The Hull regiment was with us, a group of five thousand soldiers.
For seven days we zigzagged in open seas to reach our destination, Adak the American army base. The islands were invaded by the Japanese, ATTU, AGATU, and KISKA.
Intensive training again took place on Adak .

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Along with the 9th American Task Force we went over to Great Sitken island (non-occupied) to do a simulated invasion. My good friend Bill Lapré and I were sent on a mountain top to do surveillance.

We dug a hole in the ground to protect us from the wind and sleep. Next morning we found ourselves in water! When we got up, we found ourselves high above the clouds but luckily we were radioed and told to come down the mountain. Quite an exercise.

We then left and rejoined the American task Force #9 (50,000 soldiers) as the David Bowie Division to invade the island of Kiska occupied by an estimated 10,000 soldiers. We were a special brigade within the David Bowie Division and our emblem was the Bowie knife.

Upon reaching Kiska, an intensive bombardment was undertaken by the heavy war ship, bombers. We invaded the island without any resistance.

We knew the Japanese had left the island in haste early in the morning while fog covered the island. (Maybe the Japanese knew that French Canadian soldiers were coming and they did not wish to get into combat with us!)

The night of the invasion several soldiers shot themselves by mistake. Approximately 75 soldiers died.

The Americans planes had dropped millions of propaganda pamphlets to the few remaining dogs on the island which unfortunately could not read.

Next morning upon arrival in the Japanese village and stayed several days camouflaged and well installed. In this hideout we descended underground where a Japanese German police dog ran by us without attacking us.

Later on we moved over to army tents on a mountain side with the Canadian Armed forces direction. All in all we were five sergeants. Sergeant Thompson was a good friend of mine. I was the only bilingual officer of the group. On a rotation basis, each of us had to clear out the morning snow piled up in front of all the tents.

One day, Major Dolard Ménard who had arrived in Kiska asked me to disconnect the bell on his phonein his tent. That bell was reconnected the next morning because he wasn’t getting his messages!! Ha haHa !

Here are few miscellaneous items:

• –  We would make our own root beer using Alka Selzer pills and root beer syrup.
• –  Occasionally we were invited to the American tents for lunch Yum! Yum!
• –  After staying on the island till December some of us need to return to Canada
• –  We came back crossing the Bering Sea during a storm where all of us were seriously sea sick.2

The morning of Christmas 1943 we were at Dutch Arbor where lots of submarines were stationed. That is where we celebrated Christmas eating excellent turkey cooked up by the Americans. We later returned to Canada

(Vancouver) and then on to Vernon B.C.

We were congratulated for our good work on Kiska !!

I got permission for a leave and returned home in Verdun (P.Q.) and fixed things up to marry my beautiful Claire on January 18th 1944. It was the best day life!

We had our honeymoon in Rawdon (P.Q.) WOW!

We the toured all the Desjardins and Riberdy families with my Claire, the most beautiful woman in the world!

I returned to Vernon (B.C.). My work duties were focused on storing all American material items (Clothes, revolvers tec..)

One morning, the base Colonel asked me and my group to see him. I was quickly accused of not being“active”. I told I would not comment and had my personal reasons. During this encounter the Sergeant- major took of my hat and struck me on the head. He had just returned from Shanghai (China).

The Colonel stripped me of my rank back to simple soldier and escorted out to army barracks for ordinary (simple) soldiers .

The Victoria B.C. based “very British” officer in charge of western Canada
Asked that all soldiers who had been to Kiska to sign-up as active members within the Canadian army.

While transferring my gear over to the simple soldier barracks, the base Preacher came over and told me the officer whom had struck me was excusing himself and he had been himself forced under orders from above.

He had apologized for his action (dropping my rank) and to the fact that he was unable to speak in French to me.

I also got a visit from a Scottish major who asked me if “I was in sympathy with the enemy”. I did notbother to answer him and totally ignored him afterwards. I was relocated to Prince George B.C.

Major Bell was surprised to see me downgraded to the rank of a simple soldier and gave me a rank of Corporal in charge of canteen duties and movies for the soldiers.

Again, sometime later we were relocated to Wainright (Alberta) where I worked nights as a teletype operator but eventually moved back to Montreal (Longueil army base) where I was assigned to coal shoveling duties, shoveling coal to every tent, every day !

One day I was asked into the exam office where exiting soldiers were processed. Knowledge of my typing skills had circulated and I accepted the job (typist) which was better that shoveling coal!

Doctors would examine soldiers and my job was to type up the medical reports of soldiers leaving the army. I was offered a position as Corporal but I refused based on the fact that I had already held the rank of Sergeant and served overseas.

Shortly after, I was able to leave the army. I was finally liberated from my life as a slave because I was a French Canadian in an army run by the English !!!

Note: Bernard Desjarlais was one of my men in Kiska. He died January 28 2009. Honorable Judge Desjarlais .

End of my story – Lucien Desjardins born February 04 1920 died January 2nd 2013

Interview

Lucien Desjardins: I was in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. And first there was some small training down at the base in Joliette and after that I went to Kingston in the Royal Canadian Corps Service – service of – Signals. [0:04:22.2]

Janet Clemens: And did you voluntarily join the army?

Lucien Desjardins: Did I voluntarily went in the army?

Janet Clemens: Yes.

Lucien Desjardins: No, they volunteered me to work in the army.

Janet Clemens: Okay (laughter). And – okay, And so then you were from Kingston where did you go?

Lucien Desjardins: From Kingston we left to – we went to Vancouver and from there I got a promotion and they sent me to Prince Rupert which is a base where I was and the soldiers were working on the railroad around Terrace near Prince Rupert.

Janet Clemens: Uh-huh.
Lucien Desjardins: They were getting ready for the Japanese I guess. They were

waiting for them in case they came here.

Janet Clemens: Right. Were you surprised to be okay from – so then from Price Rupert when did you find out they were shipping you to the Aleutians?

Lucien Desjardins: They called me from Vancouver. They brought me back to Vancouver and I said, “I don’t know what’s going on.” And I said “I was supposed to go and get married.”

Janet Clemens: Oh.
Lucien Desjardins: And so I went to Vancouver and the first thing I knew – we went to

Nanaimo on Victoria Island and then we had hard, very hard training.Janet Clemens: Oh.

Lucien Desjardins: And from there we took a boat and the next morning we’re on the sea in the same boat and they told us where we were going to the Aleutians. [0:05:51.3]

Lucien Desjardins: I wasn’t please because I was supposed to be going home to get

married.
Janet Clemens: I bet.

Lucien Desjardins: So, I say – I stayed on the boat and they kept our mail. They didn’t send my mail to my wife.

Janet Clemens: Wow.
Lucien Desjardins: I know. Anyway we went to Adak on the Aleutian Islands. That was the place where we stopped first. [0:06:19.2]
Janet Clemens: Right. Did you do more training on Adak?

Lucien Desjardins: Yes we did. And we – we made a practice of an invasion at Great Sitkin near Adak.

Janet Clemens: Um-hmm.
Lucien Desjardins: And from Great Sitkin we came back and went to – we were going to Kiska to invade Kiska.
Janet Clemens: And you heard about the results of Attu?
Lucien Desjardins: The result of what?
Janet Clemens: Of the Battle at Attu. Did you hear much about what went on there?

Lucien Desjardins: No. Anyway, we didn’t get off the boat right a way – the others came down first, because I was with the headquarters. I was a lineman working in establishing communications between the regiments and the headquarters so we went on the island and we expected a lot of fire with the – with the enemy.

Janet Clemens: Right. So you were on the headquarter ship?
Lucien Desjardins: Yes. With the Canadian Army- the Canadian Army, yeah.

Janet Clemens: Okay. And when you guys arrived at the island, what was the first thing you did?

Lucien Desjardins: Uh, the first thing – first they sent us to establish communications between the sea and the base on the – the village of Kiska.

Janet Clemens: Uh-huh. Over by Kiska Harbor?

Lucien Desjardins: I wasn’t please because I was supposed to be going home to get

married.
Janet Clemens: I bet.

Lucien Desjardins: So, I say – I stayed on the boat and they kept our mail. They didn’t send my mail to my wife.

Janet Clemens: Wow.
Lucien Desjardins: I know. Anyway we went to Adak on the Aleutian Islands. That was

the place where we stopped first. [0:06:19.2]
Janet Clemens: Right. Did you do more training on Adak?

Lucien Desjardins: Yes we did. And we – we made a practice of an invasion at Great Sitkin near Adak.

Janet Clemens: Um-hmm.
Lucien Desjardins: And from Great Sitkin we came back and went to – we were going to Kiska to invade Kiska.
Janet Clemens: And you heard about the results of Attu?
Lucien Desjardins: The result of what?
Janet Clemens: Of the Battle at Attu. Did you hear much about what went on there?

Lucien Desjardins: No. Anyway, we didn’t get off the boat right a way – the others came down first, because I was with the headquarters. I was a lineman working in establishing communications between the regiments and the headquarters so we went on the island and we expected a lot of fire with the – with the enemy.

Janet Clemens: Right. So you were on the headquarter ship?
Lucien Desjardins: Yes. With the Canadian Army- the Canadian Army, yeah.

Janet Clemens: Okay. And when you guys arrived at the island, what was the first thing you did?

Lucien Desjardins: Uh, the first thing – first they sent us to establish communications between the sea and the base on the – the village of Kiska.

Janet Clemens: Uh-huh. Over by Kiska Harbor?

Lucien Desjardins: We were there first and after that we went a little inside and built us

a little place there to – to where their headquarters were.Janet Clemens: Oh, okay.

Lucien Desjardins: I was always with the headquarters because we were doing jobs from the headquarters to the different places.

Janet Clemens: Oh, so you got – you got the finer accommodations it sounds like.Lucien Desjardins: Yeah. Anyway, I was a lineman. Establishing lines between the

headquarters and the different regiments and Americans and all those guys. [0:09:45.0] Janet Clemens: Did you walk everywhere or did you – did you have vehicles that you

were driving?

Lucien Desjardins: Oh, no, no, no. Nothing to drive in.

Janet Clemens: Okay, so you had to walk everywhere to…..

Lucien Desjardins: Oh yes, oh yeah. That’s right, yeah.

Janet Clemens: Okay, and was the actual Canadian camp that was closer to the invasion site of the beach?

Lucien Desjardins: Is what? The Canadian, where?
Janet Clemens: Yeah, the Canadian camp where most of the tents were set up.Lucien Desjardins: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, sure.

Janet Clemens: So did you actually stay with the whole – with the group of Canadians or did you – were you separate or kind of intermixed with where the Americans were?[0:10:24.0]

Lucien Desjardins: No. I wasn’t mixed with the Americans but we were the Canadians and we had the headquarters of Canadians and I stayed there because from there we established communications from the headquarters to the different places – to the Americans, the Canadians, a regiment of all of the coalitions.

Janet Clemens: Okay, and I’m just curious. Did you work closely with the Americans or were you guys always, you know, separately doing…..?

Lucien Desjardins: No, no. We didn’t have much meetings with the Americans.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, I guess so. Sometimes we wanted some things which we didn’t have here, we went to see the Americans to get – like some food, some good food.

Janet Clemens: Oh yeah.

Lucien Desjardins: Compared to the Canadian food.

Janet Clemens: Oh – oh what – what – do you remember what did you have to eat?

Lucien Desjardins: [0:11:16.8] Oh, sometimes we had something that wasn’t very good.

Janet Clemens: Like…..
Lucien Desjardins: The Americans always had different – they had cigarettes, they

had…..

Janet Clemens: Oh.

Lucien Desjardins: ….._beer.

Janet Clemens: Okay, well I was doing a little bit of reading about the Canadian’s time and it sounds like the Canadians got rum though.

Lucien Desjardins: (Laughs)

Janet Clemens: But the Americans didn’t so I guess you had something over on them.

Lucien Desjardins: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Sure. (Laughter)

Janet Clemens: So you were living and you – okay so tell me how long were you there and…..

Lucien Desjardins: I was there six months. [0:11:50.5]
Janet Clemens: Oh, you were six months.
Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, we – we invaded around June or early July, I think.Janet Clemens: Mid – mid August.
Lucien Desjardins: Uh…..
Janet Clemens: Yeah.

Lucien Desjardins: Not mid August. I think it was July.

Janet Clemens: Yeah mid – yeah, the invasion was in mid August.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, something like that. Around that.

Janet Clemens: Okay, and so you didn’t – did you make it home in time for Christmas?

Lucien Desjardins: No, on Christmas – I left the island of Kiska on a boat in the Bering Sea on which we had a heck of a storm. [0:12:22.4]

Janet Clemens: Oh.

Lucien Desjardins: And I was seasick (laughs).

Janet Clemens: Oh.

Lucien Desjardins: And we landed at – what was the name of that — Dutch Harbor.

Janet Clemens: Oh, okay.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah. We had – on Christmas Day we landed at Dutch Harbor and we had turkey for dinner. (Laughs)

Janet Clemens: Oh man. Very memorable, huh?
Lucien Desjardins: Oh yeah, yeah it is. And I – then from Dutch Harbor we left to go back to Victoria in Canada.

Janet Clemens: Oh wow. So they just barely got you out of Kiska on Christmas – by Christmas. That was sort of…..

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah. The day before Christmas we were on the sea in the big storm. (Laughs)

Janet Clemens: Oh, okay. So they kind of kept their promise to you guys to get you home, okay. (Laughs) So what were your impressions of coming to the Aleutian Islands? The, you know, walking on the tundra? [0:13:16.0]

Lucien Desjardins: It was very strange because there were not trees there. It was like in the Arctic. They don’t have trees, they have – what do they call that – the kind of grass they have there?

Lucien Desjardins: Well I was surprised that there was a volcano too…..

Janet Clemens: Oh yeah.

Lucien Desjardins: …..on the island and which had the smoke coming out of it and I was impressed by that.

Janet Clemens: Well.
Lucien Desjardins: That place, I was very impressed because some kind of country

I’ve never ever went too. I never went there.
Janet Clemens: It’s beautiful. I went out there in 2009.Lucien Desjardins: It was beautiful. When it’s beautiful.Janet Clemens: Right.
Lucien Desjardins: And when it is bad weather, it’s terrible.

Janet Clemens: Oh yeah, yeah. So yeah – I guess what are some of your memories? I was going to say fondest memories but just your memories of your time there and your service.

Lucien Desjardins: I beg your pardon.

Janet Clemens: Um, your son wrote that you had gone into one of those structures and found some boxes of tea and condensed milk. Could you talk about that? You went underground into the tunnels maybe or caves?

Lucien Desjardins: I went in the caves where they had this Japanese food and from there I took some of the canned vegetables which were very good.

Janet Clemens: Oh, oh, hmm.
Lucien Desjardins: Even the condensed milk.
Janet Clemens: Right.
Lucien Desjardins: They brought in condensed milk, made in Japan.Janet Clemens: Isn’t that something.

Lucien Desjardins: We had that and different kinds of food were found there but afterwards after a few weeks there they closed that up. They didn’t let anybody go there. By the way, we took a lot of food from there.

Janet Clemens: Right.
Lucien Desjardins: Extra food.

Janet Clemens: Right. Well it was – that was some concern – I talked to another veteran and he talked about a soldier, you know, he wasn’t supposed to pick up an explosive device which went off and killed the soldiers around him so I imagine people were a bit concerned about what you were picking up and where you were going.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, apparently so, I don’t remember that.

Janet Clemens: Oh, okay. And did you – we’ve been doing reading about soldiers that were souvenir-ing, you know, picking up whatever was available – what was around and it looks like you found that Japanese fan and the wooden bullets and…..

Lucien Desjardins: [0:15:50.0] Oh yeah, yeah. I did – I brought back some different things. I brought a Japanese flag and I got some little things there. We’re going to send you the copies.

Janet Clemens: Oh yeah, yeah your – your son did. Sent us pictures. That’s great.Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, my son is going to take care of that and he’ll send you

anything that he thinks – it will be useful to you.

Janet Clemens: Right, thank you. And I was – I was just trying to get a sense of was that pretty typical? Every soldier was picking up stuff and you know, to send it on home?

Lucien Desjardins: Oh yeah. I – we picked up everything we could.Janet Clemens: Yeah.
Lucien Desjardins: But there were no place to put it. (Laughs)Janet Clemens: Oh. Huh.

Lucien Desjardins: Anyway, I got a few things I brought along, but my son has got them in front of him there.

Janet Clemens: Right.

Lucien Desjardins: So – so did you feel like you were in a really – really a strange place.

Lucien Desjardins: Oh yes, very strange. It was – I was on like – on some other planet. I don’t know. It wasn’t like Earth where I lived.

Janet Clemens: No, and then…..
Lucien Desjardins: There were no trees, no wood at all there.

Janet Clemens: Right. And then you didn’t get you – you didn’t get your mail for several weeks it sounds like.

Lucien Desjardins: Oh yes. My wife didn’t hear about me – her mother told her, she said you see what a soldier – what soldiers are like, he’ll never come back!

Janet Clemens: Ah! Yeah, wow.

Lucien Desjardins: But, I loved my wife. I was married 62 years to the same girl.

Janet Clemens: Oh my gosh. Gosh congratulations.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, and I still love her.

Janet Clemens: Oh, that’s nice. So when did you get married when…..?

Lucien Desjardins: I got married when I came back from Kiska. [0:17:24.2] We – when we came back we got a leave and I went home and I got married.

Janet Clemens: Oh.

Lucien Desjardins: But I was supposed to get married six months before that in June.

Janet Clemens: So it delayed your marriage by six months.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, it was late six months but anyway, I got married. That’s the only thing that was beautiful.

Janet Clemens: Oh. So – and after you left Kiska where did – did you serve or had your time…..?

Lucien Desjardins: [0:17:52.0] I came back to Canada. We had different jobs there at Prince George and Wainwright and all those places. And – finally I say, well I came back to Montreal at the base there and I worked in the office typing when the soldiers were going out of the army.

Janet Clemens: Um-hmm.
Lucien Desjardins: They were examined by doctors.Janet Clemens: Um-hmm.

Lucien Desjardins: We had to type that on a sheet.
Janet Clemens: Sure.
Lucien Desjardins: Instead of writing – the doctors’ writing.Janet Clemens: Right. Their….

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Lucien Desjardins: So we typed that. I worked there until it was my turn to leave.Janet Clemens: Hmm.
Lucien Desjardins: So I left with pleasure (laughter).
Janet Clemens: Yeah – you did – did you duty. Right?

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah. I was in nearly four and a half years. [0:18:42.7] Janet Clemens: Four and a half years, ok, okay.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, so. I said, I got married and became a fireman. I was a fireman for 35 years and, anyway, I had a good life. A very good life.

Janet Clemens: It sounds like it. And then Jacques had written that he and his brother, I think, both went in to the communications field.

Lucien Desjardins: Uh-huh.
Janet Clemens: So did that have any – your experience, do you think, being a

linesman or in communication did that somehow influence them?

Lucien Desjardins: Oh, I can’t understand what you say.

Janet Clemens: Oh, I’m sorry. Your sons went in to the communications careers.

Lucien Desjardins: Oh yes, they did, yeah, yeah.

Janet Clemens: Um, do you think that’s because of your experience?

Lucien Desjardins: No, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I went in as a fireman because I liked being a fireman. [0:19:34.9]

Janet Clemens: Hmm.
Lucien Desjardins: I never did anything else.

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Janet Clemens: Yeah, did you…..

Lucien Desjardins: I had a hard time but I liked to be a fireman.

Janet Clemens: Yeah.

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Lucien Desjardins: I was used – I was used to, I don’t know, not war but hard times.

Janet Clemens: Well, yeah.

Lucien Desjardins: When you get to a fire, it’s quite – it’s quite a job.

Janet Clemens: Oh it certainly is very important at the time.

Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, yeah.

Janet Clemens: When you were in the army did you – did they just tap you to be the linesman or did you have a, you know, much of a choice?

Lucien Desjardins: A choice?

Janet Clemens: Right. For what you did in the army?

Lucien Desjardins: Oh yeah, I had a choice, yeah. I took the – I decided to go with the Signals part of the army in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals because I thought they always – things there I liked very much. [0:20:31.4]

Janet Clemens: Okay. Do you remember – I guess I have a list here. I’m not that familiar with the Canadian, you know, regiment or do you remember what group you were with by chance?

Lucien Desjardins: Oh, I was with the – I think it’s on one of our letters there. Is it 13th?Janet Clemens: Yeah, there – yeah, it has the big 13th Canadian Infantry Brigade

Group.
Lucien Desjardins: Yeah, that’s right.

Janet Clemens: And then, okay below that I guess it’s broken down to field regiments and Canadian Fusiliers and Winnipeg.

Lucien Desjardins: That’s right.
Janet Clemens: Yeah, okay.
Lucien Desjardins: Want to speak to my son now?

Janet Clemens: Um, is that – you have anything else you’d like to – for us to know about or from the Canadian perspective that you know, what you – we heard you guys were very, you know, always well dressed and did the parades and were very, you know, kept yourselves, you know, well presented. Is that your opinion?

Lucien Desjardins: Anyway, I’ve gotta give you back to my son because I…..

Janet Clemens: Okay.

Lucien Desjardins: I’ve gotta rest a little bit.

Janet Clemens: [0:21:39.2] Oh, you bet. Thank you so much! It’s been wonderful hearing your – hearing from you.

Lucien Desjardins: Boy, it was a pleasure talking to you.
Janet Clemens: All right. And we will send you a copy of the transcript.

Lucien Desjardins: And my son is going to send you some copies of the things that I have here.

Janet Clemens: Okay.
Lucien Desjardins: The rest of it. I have some postcards of Japanese ships.Janet Clemens: Uh-huh.
Lucien Desjardins: Taking British ships in Japanese.