City of Caen

After the city of Caen was shelled and bombed and flattened almost to nothing, the Canadian army bulldozed a road through the city of Caen. That city stuck in my mind because it was about approximately the size of Charlottetown and the population of Charlottetown. So there was many, many bodies under the rubble in this town and it was hot, it was hot, hot weather. I made countless trips back and forth through Caen to the cities around there - little places like Buron, they were still fighting in it. Countless trips but when I’d get to the outskirts of Caen, I had a cowboy, red cowboy handkerchief and I’d put it on my nose and mouth before I could ride through that city with the stench, with the dead bodies.