Hello Michelle:

My dad was part of the Canadian forces that went through the Falaise Gap with the Canadian Grenadier Guards, in his tank albeit about a day or two after the main front...I still have his maps...and like your dad, he didn't ponder a lot about it, especially not to us, his children - and definitely not out loud.

But from places like this forum and the French forum (actually from there, with locals and people whose homes were involved), I have gained insight into what he and his comrades saw. And moreso for those that came just after the fighting...gruesome is the only word I can conger up because I've never been that close to anything similar.

I do know that those liberators who went through the Gap have the eternal gratefulness of the French locals whose towns were in the path of the German retreat.

What was your dad's situation in August 1944? I see some info from your profile but at what dates was he involved?

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