D DAY Through German Eyes 2

by Holger Eckhertz

the massive Allied air fleets, funded by their international finance backers, became bigger and more powerful.

As soon as we levelled out, we were hit by a pair of Mustangs that came down from the 120 degree point, on our rear quadrant. They tore right through us before we got our wits together . . . damn, I blush with shame when I remember that, to be attacked so quickly and in such a basic fashion.

the air was full of these damned Mustangs,

The hospital was overrun by the Americans very early one morning. We heard engines, and suddenly there were Jeeps in the courtyard, and these huge American fellows, like giants, with their Thompson guns over their shoulders, were already making friends with our nurses. I don’t know whether the Americans put their tallest men in the front line, or if this was by coincidence, but these fellows were close to two metres tall, all of them.

Life in France made many of us lax and undisciplined, you see. We were becoming rather French in our behaviour. We would be punished for this casual attitude