Canadian breakout up the coast of France into Belgium

I saw that myself with, with our own medical officers that we had with us, you know because they were, they were the same as us, they'd never seen any wounds and, you know, like that and so on. Which, you know, in peace time you don't, you don't come across at all.

And some of them are quite sad, really, because later on we were in Germany and we came across this little boy who was no more than 5 years of age that had gone into a tank which was booby trapped, and he lost, his leg was just hanging you know, by just a couple of threads and there was nothing we could do except take it off, you know, but that, that's going too far ahead.

Well Falaise of course, after Falaise well then we broke out and we were, some days we would not stop for, for a, you know, 12-14 hours, we'd be just driving as fast as we could. And I understand that the 4th Armoured Division moved the whole division farther in one day than any other, a whole division, than any other unit in, in, in the Allied Forces. I mean sure, Patton would, would rush ahead with his Tank Corps, but the rest of the, his units were all miles behind, you know the infantry for cleaning up and so on, but we were close to the coast all the time because that was the Canadians objective was to, to clear out the ports, they wanted the port.