Gordon McAllister

Gordon "Gordo" McAllister (also known as the Donkey but not within earshot) was a private in Staff Sergeant Alistair Walsh's company in Belgium in 1943/44. He was a hulking Scotsman, strong but not long on brains. In the summer of 1943, McAllister and Pvt. Jack Scholes received training in a new American weapon called the bazooka. Scholes carried the launch tube while McAllister carried a supply of rockets in a sack. The two used it almost immediately, with Scholes taking out a German machine gun emplacement and a Panzer IV with two well placed shots while McAllister loaded.