The Doodle Bug.
Why fire on it when it was going back where it came from?
I know it's silly what we remember, some things that really are of no consequence at all, but for some reason we recall everything about that incident, in this case, because it was so bizarre. We were on high ground to the North of the City of Caen, That battle scared area I have always looked on as the ‘Killing Ground’ This was the high ground in front of Caen. Here we we could look out over the channel, the site was incredible, I must admit to just standing looking at the thousands of ships of every description, 11,000 at one time, spread as far as the eye could see, it looked as though it would be possible to walk back to England from ship to ship. I still have a clear picture of that view.

What we saw next was a bit of pure theatre, a Buzz bomb, Doodle bug! came throbbing overhead, heading straight for England, half the battle field, British, Canadian, and German, stopped what they were doing to watch this bit of entertainment, no one fired at it as it winged its way towards England. As it approached the coast, a spitfire dived on it at high speed and tipped its wing, loud cheers from the thousands of ‘Allied’ watchers, it then chugged steadily away, back where it came from, on it's return trip, all of our anti aircraft guns started firing at it. Now, why for heavens sake? Bizarre! Absolutely Bizarre.
Sapper.