We could hear the firing in the distance and they cleared the
beaches and we come right in behind and there were prisoners
lined up on the shore already and a little fighting going on but
we never even got our feet wet. It was quite a ways to travel
in. We could see, and now today, I didn’t know it but that was
the Queen’s own house there on the right of us. I was standing
there and that stood out. That’s the only building that I seen
except the German pillboxes. I must tell you about the wounded
and the people that died already or had been shot were floating
in the water and a bunch of our Canadian soldiers had these
phosphorous grenades on their belt and they were on fire. Every
time the water would go over the top, it would go out and when
it come back up on top of the water the blue flame would come
again. Very eerie. And that’s the first time I seen the German
soldiers close, they’re all in an enclosure in barb wire.