Hill 112: The Battle of the Odon by Tim Saunders

Author:Tim Saunders [Saunders, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, World War II, Non-Fiction, Normandy (France), France
ISBN: 9780850527377
Amazon: B00D2C551M
Barnesnoble: B00D2C551M
Goodreads: 2021247
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2000-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Bren Gun carrier equipped for signalling.

′Suddenly I heard the roar of a Panzer a few hundred yards to our rear and looked round saw this huge monster with gun equally huge pointing towards us. Diving flat on the ground just in time to evade an armour piercing shell which the Panzer fired. The shell passed literally a few inches above my posterior – the fragments of steel from the hole it made in my vehicle showered my backside and it was like a pin cushion with all the needles pushed in… I ran into the orchard and was lucky to see a dug-out made by the Germans and it had a wood cover. I ran into this and there found three others, all British.

′The Germans soon overran this area and were riddling these dug-outs with machine-gun fire. We soon realized this was likely to be our end and we shook hands and prayed – there′s nothing like this to make a man pray. We heard the rattle of Army boots running over the top of us – the spasmodic burst of gunfire as they raked the dugouts. Our thoughts raced through our heads – what would my folks at home be doing – how would they react to the formal notice of killed in action. One of the soldiers in this dug-out was having a puff at his last and only cigarette – in a state of nerves he would have a puff and then pass it to his mates to do likewise. Myself, I was resigned to be either killed or captured. I was not afraid, just filled with regret that all the future things I had planned and hoped for were now just vanishing.′

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