They just flattened Caen, France.
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They just flattened Caen, France.
The night, or the day they were going to bomb Caen, France,
we were way up, so we got the orders from [inaudible]
to pull back. I don't know how far I forget now but anyway.
And we were given the orders, they were gonna,
we really were given orders not to, not to fire, get off our guns
We got out there in an empty field and at the special hour,
we could hear, could hear these bombers coming, our bombers.
And all, all of a sudden, this here one plane,
we could see the bomb bay doors opening
and they were coming towards us.
And then we saw some gal damn shells flying out,
but by that time they were past us.
But there was a Polish outfit in a kind of a bush,
just up farther and they opened up on our own planes.
Now I mean, the day they bombed Caen,
I don't know, there wouldn't be a thousand planes,
but maybe, maybe a couple hundred or five hundred
but they just flattened Caen, France.
And then we had to wait for, I don't know how long it was,
until they went in there with bulldozers to Caen, France
and get the road opened, open, so we could drive through.
And when we were driving through,
there were still people screaming, they were buried,
buried under rubble, they were getting them out.
Some kids, kids out there on the street, put their hands out,
but we couldn't stop. We had to keep going.
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