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instantly opened fire on them-
even before the Bren gunners could
-- up The first shell hit the
cottage wall behind them and litterly
brought the house down about
them. Apparently under the impression
that they had hit [crossed out] Hollis they
stopped firing. Hollis sd "Let's
get out of here." Believing that
they were following he crawled
out of the rhubarb and back
onto the road
There he saw his company
commander who told him that
the CO of the Batt had been up &
had ordered the gun bypassed
They were to push on. So they did
After they had gone about 200
yards somebody said to Hollis
"where are the two Bren gunners?"
Hollis looked around but
couldn't see them. He hurried
back to his CO and told him
that they must be still back
in the kitchen garden "I took
them, he said "and I'm going back
to get them out." He could hear
machine guns chattering behind
him & he figured that his two
men were pinned down He
took a Bren gun & returned.
He crept up on the German
position and poking the gun
through the hedge fired a blast at