Two Sides of the Beach: The Invasion and Defense of Europe in 1944Views D-Day and the invasion of Europe from both attacking and defending forces' points of view. First-hand interviews with Allied and German front line soldiers and generals relay the horror of combat. |
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Page 82
... wounded with me until we regained our starting point again . It had all been a waste . 99 Uwe Friedemann was a private soldier with the 21st Panzers and trying to reach the front in a well - camouflaged convoy of fifty vehicles ...
... wounded with me until we regained our starting point again . It had all been a waste . 99 Uwe Friedemann was a private soldier with the 21st Panzers and trying to reach the front in a well - camouflaged convoy of fifty vehicles ...
Page 99
... wounded , and some were hit . It was awful to see and I just buried my face in my arm . I'd seen enough and I cried . We'd had a bad introduction to combat and no mistake . The Scotsmen had run straight into fire from elements of the ...
... wounded , and some were hit . It was awful to see and I just buried my face in my arm . I'd seen enough and I cried . We'd had a bad introduction to combat and no mistake . The Scotsmen had run straight into fire from elements of the ...
Page 134
... wounded and dead . And I thought , My God , so this is what it's all about ! In that tiny attempt on my part we lost four men killed and six wounded , and it took the medics about an hour to get them back to the holes where they could ...
... wounded and dead . And I thought , My God , so this is what it's all about ! In that tiny attempt on my part we lost four men killed and six wounded , and it took the medics about an hour to get them back to the holes where they could ...
Contents
Generals and Soldiers | 1 |
567 | 51 |
Cowards and Prisoners | 145 |
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12th SS 1st SS 21st Panzer action air attack Allied American anti-tank guns armoured artillery assault battalion battle beach began blokes bombers bombs British bullets Caen Canadian casualties chaps Cheux Churchill combat commander comrades Corporal Corps D-day DD tank dead division Eisenhower enemy felt field fighting fire flank forced France front German Goodwood grenades ground Hausser heard hell hill Hitler hole infantry invasion Jerries killed knew lads landing later Lieutenant looked lost Luftwaffe machine-gun mate Miles Dempsey Mont Pincon Montgomery Monty Monty's mortars move NCOs never noise Normandy Odon officer Panzer Group West Panzer Lehr RAF Regiment reached realised Regiment river Odon road Rommel rushed seemed Sepp Dietrich Sergeant SHAEF shells Sherman shooting shouted Shropshires soldiers soon SS Panzer Corps started stopped tanks terrific things thought told Tommies took troops truck trying unit vehicles Waffen-SS weapons wounded yelling