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...Antwerp (see above). Shortages of almost everything from ammunition to cigarets and field kitchens had popped up and were still popping up all along the front. Cursing doughfoots ate cold rations, got along on ten cigarets a day. At one point the Third Army fired captured shells from captured 88s. The First Army served their own 155s with ammunition which had been captured from the French by the Germans in 1940, retaken from the Germans...
...beginning the Canadians had tough fighting and little glory. They and the British had the pick of Rommel's armor, guns and troops in front of them. Even after the capture of Caen, they were held down and unmercifully pounded by German 88s. Grimly they hung on, giving U.S. Lieut. General Omar Bradley time to take Cherbourg. Grimly, after the surprise U.S. breakthrough at Saint-Lô, they pushed down and held the north arm of the Falaise-Argentan pincer. Only when that was done could the Canadians themselves wheel and cross the Seine...
Hoffmann was a ist lieutenant in our outfit. During the flaming fight for Fondouk Pass, the Division chaplain came down, offered Hoffmann the post of assistant Division chaplain. This would bring him a step-up in rank, and there wasn't so much ducking German 88s. Father Hoffmann's rejoinder was that he was interested not a whit in rank, that his place was with the boys of the ist Battalion. He stayed with us. Wherever the going was toughest on the front line, you'd see Hoffmann strolling along with a shovel. With this...
...Left. The British and Canadians were on the eastern water flank, which was churned by a brisk wind across the Bay of the Seine. Some small landing craft were swamped or impaled on the water barriers, or bobbed helplessly offshore, targets for German 88s and 1553 which had survived the bombardment...
...charge their batteries. The A.A.F. and their comrades of the R.A.F. Coastal Command believed in hitting the sea wolves before they ganged up in packs. At Coffin Corner the 480th fought Germans under the sea and on the surface, also had to fight them in the air. For Junkers 88s and Focke-Wulf 200s patrolled the hunting grounds, first in pairs, finally in formations of eight...