Not a Shot Fired.

Once we started pushing them real hard, especially after Falaise Gap it, they were, they were on the run and they didn't stop to, to fight, like this house to house fighting and that, they, they took right off and, and got, had other places to, like positions that they knew of, like, you know. See, they had everything marked off, everything there. They knew exactly how many feet from one house to the other and all this. Well, it wasn't feet. It was metres and stuff like for them, but. And they knew, you know, where they were going but they'd, they'd run to see, you know, to, to settle down. So, it was a lot easier in, in a lot of ways. I think, Italy and that they had a lot more house fighting and that, you know, that, that was, that was bad, like, you know, like, but, but that's the way, like, this . . . that's why what happen, the same thing when we took Dieppe. Like, we were 2nd Division, and the big raid in Dieppe in '42 was 2nd Division, you know, took a beating, so they wanted us to take Dieppe and we went, we went in one end and they ran out the other end, and there wasn't a shot fired because all their defences was for the water and we come in from the back, so. So, we stayed there for about a week, and they had a big parade there for the guys who were killed through the big, the graveyard. There was a big graveyard there at Dieppe, and . . . we were outside of Dieppe, like, where they had a big railroad gun that used to shoot over to . . . I think it was Dover, or something, over to England, anyway. And it was just a bare field, and everything was underground. Like the, all the men lived underground. You go down about 20 feet, I guess, 30 feet, and all their, their huts and everything was about, made out of cement, about three, four feet thick, and they lived right there. Their kitchen, their orderly rooms, everything was under there. They'd take the gun out, fire it, and then run it back in. And right behind that, they had a bunch of wooden artillery guns and, and for, like, decoys, like, you know. And the planes used to come over there and bomb them and strafe them and everything else, but that bare field was where everything was.