'..Oberfuhrer Harmel and his command group stood just before the bridge at St. Lambert....this was the deepest depth of wartime hell that had yet been reached....' (from
'In The Firestorm Of The Last Years Of The War' by Wilhelm Tieke)
'The river was choked with wreckage and with the bodies of men and horses, the dead and wounded lying together in ghastly heaps....'
I've never seen such good Autumn weather in France as we had last week ; it was really a quite bizarre experience to stroll in such peaceful countryside and try in some way to imagine what happened here.
This is a close-up of the infamous Moissy Ford across which the remnants of two German armies escaped the Pocket - Panthers, Stugs and Panzer IVs are recorded as having crossed at this point.....
