"Getting bombed by the Americans was nothing like we had seen in Russia, we couldn’t move 4 meters without mortar, artillery, or Jabo jumping our asses. I have been to Poland, Holland, France, Greece, Crete, Russia and Italy. Never in my years in the war did I see such a tremendous amount of destruction laid out in front of my eyes as the Americans and their tremendous amount of explosive devices. Seeing the bombing of Monte Cassino and the destructive force naval artillery combined with Jabo, bombers, mortars and grenades in the Normandy campaign, and the utter obliteration of men and material in the Falaise Pocket. It made one feel like you were seeing the death of man en mass as in the bible."