Nadine.
Yes, she had a strong will. To be able to look after everyone, six of them were older, but she had five kids that were all about six and under, and one set of twins in there. One of the hardest things I had to do when I came back, I had to go and see Mrs.kyle.Her son had joined up around the same time has I did, we were good friends growing up.
I have debated telling you this, I felt that young people shouldn’t have to listen to stuff like this, But, this is important what I pass on here, remember this what I tell here. Because I have no doubt that your grandfather knew them or of them. And you should know who your grandfather served beside and maybe shared a laugh with.
Mrs Kyle’s son was one of the boy’s that the Hitler Jugend shot at the chateau d’audrieu on June 8 1944.And to have to tell her how her son died was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but I could not lie to her. He was a very honourable young man. Very soft-spoken and kind of shy, a typical farm boy. He deserved better than to die in such a way.
When we landed on the beaches at Juno, and fought tooth and nail to get that beachhead and secure the positions for our friends to follow. We never dreamed that what was to follow were days, that would haunt us for the rest of our lives, Our enemy that the nazi’s put us up against were the Hitler jugend, the Hitler youth,The dreaded 12th SS. They were young boy’s that the nazi’s had raised to be devote followers of Hitler. They swore oaths to him. And they held up his image very well, they killed without mercy, and little or no remorse. They had taken children and brainwashed them, into being the same has Hitler, full of hate and wickedness, such, was the nazi dream to turn the whole world into followers such has this. I am haunted all the days of my life having to face children in battle, and I hope that god has mercy on my soul. But, Such is the horror of war. They would not surrender, and they fought like possessed maniacs. It was terrible, thousands of them fell to us, but, no matter how many fell, it did not stop the rest from coming.
I curse the ground that raised such a person has Hitler, to have done this to me. He took the farm boy that I was and turned me into a killer of children.
Jack