Give and Take at Carpiquet Airport

We weren’t there too long. We moved up the other side of Caen and we stayed there for a while and then we made the breakthrough to Falaise Gap. Actually, our unit didn’t stop fighting. We whittled past it. But just at the time we were putting that raid on, the RAF got off target. I, at that time, the WAG and I had sent me back because I had been shot at the night before and got buggered up a little bit and I was getting a new one. Well, I was in this little echelon right alongside a first field dressing station. Well, we saw the Lancs coming over, that’s alright, then we see their bomb bays open up over here and we heard a whistle over our heads. We promptly go down the road. I went back about two miles after that one. But I think the closest thing to land was probably a half mile from where I was. I think it was the next day, we took off and went right through and Falaise was in the bottom like this, and there was a road along the hillside. We took off and went on through, and they left the infantry to mop up the bottom. But there was scads of motor vehicles, tanks, horses. You couldn’t... there was a vehicle, oh from, pretty near from here to the wall for about 10-12 miles. Our Tiffies had got in and shot them up good.Interviewer: These are the Typhoons? Typhoons, that’s right!