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- Harold Jennings
- Location of story:听
- Germany
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A4489626
- Contributed on:听
- 19 July 2005
V.E. Day
H. Jennings
Germany
We had come quickly from Holland, moving up across Germany to Hanover. We moved north again and stopped at a place called Saltau, near Belsen. There, most of the Company was broken up into sections and sent out into the country.
It was a sure sign that the war was coming to an end. You could feel it in the air - it was like a great spring unwinding after all the long years. A mate and I were out on patrol in a village high up in the mountains, miles from everywhere. We were bent forward against the wind which was very strong. We turned a corner out of the village square and had the shock of our lives for looming over us was an 88, the gun of a Tiger tank. It was like walking into a battleship on the top of Leckhampton Hill.
Luckily the war had finished the day before and the tank was carrying a big white flag on its wireless antenna. The crew told us they were moving as fast as they could to surrender to the British as they did not want to be taken by the Russians.
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