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Description
Mr. McCabe describes the bombardment at Falaise Gap.
Transcription
Just outside of Caen in Mondeville, going down the Falaise Gap, you always got a little briefing beforehand, when the attack was going in. So anyway, they said the planes were coming over and they’d be over at a certain time, 7 o’clock in the morning, around that. And then they just, which was right, they did come over and they were dropping, dropping bombs. Even dropped them on our own Div. Headquarters, but when the first plane started to come they kept on coming for about an hour and a half really and they were dropping their bombs. The ground was like that steady and never stopped going and then they’d get going and all the Germans did to come over, they’d just pull back, that’s all. And then when the last plane went over, they’d pull ahead. That’s why it was so hard. Everything was, they were getting surrounded down in the Falaise Gap, the Germans, and when they get a lull, they’d move ahead and the planes would come. They could move back, but then they got caught, made their own trap. So they got caught in it.