Targets to Destroy
Heroes Remember
Targets to Destroy
Interviewer: What kind of targets were
you assigned to destroy during those operations?
Well most of them were in the Ruhr Valley.
that's the industrial at that time,
industrial area,
synthetic oil plants,
other industrial plants, manufacturing and
we had I think about four or
five army, assisting army
that had landed in France and
we were called out to bomb ahead of them
for them but other than that, you know,
they were, all the targets were
essentially the same.
Like at night, you saw the same thing.
Once we flew very low, this was to France,
and you could see them running like
where I was, you see, you could see
the Germans running around and
very low. But, you know,
it's two years that I've never regretted.
At night everything was so colorful, you know,
It's a terrible way to describe something
that was terrible what was happening
on the ground, never thought of that.
We were there to do what
we were supposed to do.
And it has never bothered me since either,
I'll tell you because it was something that
was done through necessity, you know.
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