Learning from the Germans and the attack in Antwerp

So then eventually we got into, into Belgium, and we went into Brugge, the first town we went into in Belgium. And we took over, the Germans had moved out in the morning, and we moved in, in the afternoon. We took over a German hospital in Brugge, and there were German patients there. And they left a, a, a surgeon, a German surgeon in there. So he, then that's when our medical officers got some training too, by seeing this surgeon work, you know and we were looking after the German prisoners. But we didn't stay there more than a couple of days, and we were on again through Ghent and Brussels and so on. But we eventually got into Antwerp, and Antwerp was the prize that the Germans, the, the Germans were trying to prevent us from getting.

This, we were just in Antwerp and we had complete control of Antwerp, the Canadian Army,
and they had a cinema on this corner, and I can remember this, you know, it's funny you remember certain things you know, and they had a, a movie on which the Canadians were gonna watch and it was Rita Hayworth in "Cover Girl". And the, this cinema was full of Canadian soldiers, and this V2 rocket which you, if you know anything about the V2 rocket, you hear two explosions. Yeah, you hear two explosions, and the first one is the, the, the, the V2 rocket exploding that it hits. The second noise is the sound of it coming. And you had no warning, no warning because it, it was coming so fast, see. And this shell hit right on this intersection right beside the theatre and blew half of the theatre out and there were a lot of Canadian casualties from that. And the MP that was on the corner directing traffic, they never found him.