Low flying German

Going down though we travelled by night on the box cars and then, in the day time, they’d stop at some big place and we would all stay in barns or something through the day. The trains wouldn’t be moving. And then at night, they’d load up and keep moving on, moving on to get down to Amiens and so the Germans never knew that the Canadians were down there. Right at the very last, when we got off the train while lining up to get into position and that there, we marched that night to get in position. We were the last battalion to move off in that scrap. We had the last objective to take. And when it come time to move up to go and take our objective, well, we were too far ahead and we didn’t have no support and Heinie was coming over. It was in the middle of the afternoon and he was flying right up and down low. By gosh, we were hiding under the galldarn . . . and drop down to the old Hindenburg Line all grown over, the trench was there and he was right down. We were shooting at him with the rifles there. You could see him sitting in the cockpit just as plain as anything, flying that low. Not a plane or no artillery supporting us at all because we’d advanced too far ahead. We got a, the Germans were just, artillery we were just, had the horses hooked onto a gun and were pulling out this little bush where we were, right along where our objective was. And we got this here horse. And one of the officers there, can’t think of his name, he rode that horse for quite a while. Kept it in the lines and back.