I recently spoke to another German veteran who mentioned that he was surprised that the Allies had brought no horses with them for the invasion. Yes, that was a surprise to us. We commented on it. If that had been a German army, even in 1944, there would have been a lot of horses and wagons there, in the supply element, because of the lack of fuel and trucks. In fact, one of our men stupidly asked one of the American guards, ‘But where are your horses?’ The Americans just laughed at this and gave him a cigarette.
