Sweeps at the Falaise Gap

We moved over to France I think about the first of August or so. I forget exactly, but it was just at the time shortly after where the Falaise Gap came and the fighting there and the low level attacks. And a lot of people don’t know but even at that time, the German Army used a lot of horses to pull carts and wagons and things. And we really felt bad about shooting at horses and yet you’d see the German soldiers would be holding the horses bridle and be just sort of jerked off their feet with the rearing. It was dangerous, terribly dangerous for them to move during the day, and yet they did. Sometimes, particularly you would see motorcyclists and I think they were dispatch riders. They should have been given the iron cross, double time for being a motorcyclist because if you saw a motorcycle scooting down the road, it was fair game.