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I was one of a crew of 5 in a tank. I was the driver and we had to cross the River Orle. It was all quiet in the morning but in the afternoon our squadron of about 80 tanks were attacked by a Panzer division of say 300. We were not much more than civilians - we'd only been in the army a few months. I was 18 but we felt the Germans were battle hardy. They knocked out 50 odd tanks and there were only about 30 left. About 10 people got killed. When a tank gets hit the missile splinters and many more soldiers were injured. I was one of the fortunate ones and escaped injury. But I was very scared. Luckily we had enough tanks to form a composite squadron and we continued to fight until 1945.

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