Sights on the Beaches

We could hear the firing in the distance and they cleared the beaches and we come right in behind and there were prisoners lined up on the shore already and a little fighting going on but we never even got our feet wet. It was quite a ways to travel in. We could see, and now today, I didn’t know it but that was the Queen’s own house there on the right of us. I was standing there and that stood out. That’s the only building that I seen except the German pillboxes. I must tell you about the wounded and the people that died already or had been shot were floating in the water and a bunch of our Canadian soldiers had these phosphorous grenades on their belt and they were on fire. Every time the water would go over the top, it would go out and when it come back up on top of the water the blue flame would come again. Very eerie. And that’s the first time I seen the German soldiers close, they’re all in an enclosure in barb wire.