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for Hitler and Germans in general and he didn't get a
chance to kill a one or to see his home country while I
a quiet country boy from Virginia who didn't really hate
Germans at all lived to carry on It took us several
hours to knock out that pill box by the way and
it still stands as a monument to Omaha overlooking
Les Moulins
Another incident I remember occurred on the outskirts of
St. Laurent Sur Mer The Germans were in the town
we were trying to get in and a stretch of dirt road
led from our positions to the town a distance of about 200 yds
In the excitement and confusion of all the shooting an old
French woman kept running back and forth from a shac
near us to the edge of town across this road Finally
somebody decided she was spying and down she went
in a burst of machine gun fire I didnt know who
shot her but I couldnt help feeling sorry for her as she
lay there in the dust Apparently she had been friendly with
the Germans or she wouldn't have been there since the area
had been largely evacuated of civilians
In this same area I happened to witness one of our men a
Sgt Robertson of Staunton Virginia come face to face with a german
on this same dirt road They stepped out of the bushes on opposite
sides at the same instant and both froze for a second
and both fired their rifles point blank from the hop but our
man pulled the trigger first I guess because the German
fell I thought at the time this was like playing cowboys
only this time it was for real A few feet further
on I stumbled on a vine and rolled down the bank of a
ravine all tangled in briars and honeysuckle vines and
wound up right next to a soldier in German uniform I then
this as my most terrible moment my carbine was tangle in vines
and I was desperately pawing at my belt for my knife when I
realized he was more terrified than I He surrendered and
turned out to be a ^little Polish man about 60 years old who had been
impressed intot he German Army and wasn;t too interested in
fighting after all He was one of our first prisoners that day

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