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Description
Mr. Burton describes a German bombing raid which spooks the horses in his care. He discusses not only the potential danger of the bombs, but also that from 'friendly' spent ammunition used against the bomber.
Transcription
We got to a place called Caix Wood, C-A-I-X and I was on a stable picket there and they had a rope tied between two trees and there was twelve horses tethered and six horses on each side of that. This bomber came over there, there were some tanks just a couple hundred yards away there and I guess the tanks they were coming over and the bomber came over to try and hit those tanks, dropping those bombs and everything and the horses got on one end of that rope came loose and the horses were going crazy. Here was twelve horses all milling around up on their hind legs and doing all sorts of things. I had to get a hold of the end of that rope and I finally got it snubbed around a tree and just about the time I got it snubbed around a tree and got the horses quite why the plane got out of the search lights and all of a sudden peace is wonderful, you wouldn’t believe it, the stuff was coming down those trees like a hail storm, you know, sort of thing. Everybody was firing and all what goes up comes down and it was all coming down all over the place there. I don’t know if anybody was hit, certainly I wasn’t but it wasn’t a very healthy place to be.