From
'The Battle Of The Falaise Gap' by Eddy Florentin ( Elek, 1965 ) : -
'...(one of the German ) columns was trying to cross the River Dives at Moissy Ford. It was a ridiculously small crossing for the might of a powerful army - a ford for washerwomen who crossed by laying a plank from one bank to the other. By pouring tanks and vehicles into it, Seventh Army would fill the deep riverbed, and soldiers would kill each other fighting to cross the bridge.....The Allied artillery and air forces pounded this semi-paralysed mass unceasingly....' (p.233 ).
