Aftermath of Falaise

And the sad part about it was that we were walking in fields just before the air field, and there were Canadians killed right there in the field that had, hadn't even been picked up yet, you know, and that was, you know, when you first go into battle and this is what you see, I mean it's, you, of course you get hardened pretty quick, but, you know.

No, well you see so much of it you know, you see so much, that it, it, it's a job, it's what you have to do, you know. So, you know, it's, it's hard to describe getting used to it, but it's, you see so much of it that it's, I guess its like even in a hospital even today, you know, you see so much things that, you know, you'd, you know sometimes they say nurses are very hard, well this is the whole thing, they see so much.

Well that's, that's what I am getting to now is, right on this Falaise, we had moved into what was Falaise crossroad. And on one corner was a farmhouse and a barn, the other corner was a tank unit and we were on this third corner, and the fourth corner was just trees. And the RAF came over with a thousand plane raid, and they were to bomb the front, which was a mile ahead of us. And the first 200 planes came over and bombed their objective, but the Germans had thrown a shell over back at us, and for, it unfortunately hit the ammunition dump in this tank unit right across the street from us and blew it up. And the second wave of bombers came over and they saw this and thought this was their objective. And they stopped drop, dropping these bombs on us, and they're coming out just like kindling wood you know, and coming down at us. And I've never seen anything like this before, I've never saw anything like this.