He said the gun crew thought it was all a joke and for the remainder of the war, and at postwar reunions, they would get a laugh from remembering the time they shot at a moving haystack.

• 他信上说，炮组当时认为此事完全是个笑话，足以作为战争纪念，可为战后聚会时，想起曾朝移动草垛开炮而开怀大笑。