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Old October 30th, 2007, 06:13 AM
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Default Re: Pics : 'Wartime Hell'

The full article by Art Bridge (my dad) has now been posted at The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (P.L.), under the heading "Falaise". It includes lots of photos from 1944 and an interesting epilogue.

There's a field behind and to the right of where the photographer was standing when he took the famous photo of Major Currie. Attached is a photo of the field taken in 2006, covered in beautiful spring flowers. My dad says that on August 21, 1944, this 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.

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