Thanks for quoting my dad's article. It took many years before he would write of his experiences, and there are some things he is still reluctant to write about. The full article with photos and an interesting epilogue can now be seen at The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (P.L.), under the heading "Falaise". Reading it and the others posted there, I wonder how I ever arrived on this earth.

There's a field behind and to the right of where the photographer was standing when he took the famous photo of Major Currie. I have a photo of the field taken in 2006, covered in beautiful spring flowers (I would post it if I could figure out how). My dad says that on August 21, 1944, that field was so covered with dead Germans that it was possible to walk from one side to the other without touching the ground. I believe this is the field Gen. Eisenhower describes much the same way in his memoirs. Hard to imagine, looking at this tranquil place now.