And I didn’t know, by this time I had to find
my regiment or my brigade
headquarters at that time. I didn’t know where
they were or where they
had gone to and so on. So it was getting
pretty dark toward dark at night.
I met some troops that were coming back,
they were getting close to Carpiquet airport I
found out, somebody told me at the time.
And they were coming back and said don’t go
up here cuz the Germans are pushing us so
I went back and as it turns out I was amongst
the British soldiers and they were next
on our left flank. And I said,
“Where are you guys staying at night?”
He said, “Oh there’s a church over there,
we’re bedding down on the floor there.”
And so I joined them.
And the next morning they gave me breakfast
and the next morning I went looking and
I found the brigadier had just come onshore
with the jeep and I don’t know which jeep
he was on so anyway, he of course piled in
and told me where to go.
He knew on his map where he was supposed
to find so and after that I…
I never got lost all the time I drove him around.
A lot of time it was dark in the evening,
I never got lost once because I had the maps
and I had already taken a map reading
course in the army and they had very good
maps which the air force photographed and
printed and they were very good detailed
maps and I would study those maps every
day and I would know where everybody was.
And having to stay outside and never went
in, when it was dark I was never went where
there wasn’t a light burning so I never
lost my sense of direction. And so the brigadier
would come out and say let’s go and
I knew where to go and my mind kept going.
We had a startling experience, we were
going down this road, a small road,
narrow road and came to one of these halftrack
vehicles quite large, they take ten or
more troops and so on and
you couldn’t tell who was who.
It turned out it was a Polish half-track and
they decided they were friends instead of foes.
We wondered what was going to happen so
anyway, we weren’t lost but I kept driving and
found our way back to where
we were supposed to go.