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Alan Bouars
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“We began with the landing in Normand, we met the Christmas of 1944 in Ardennes. The war ended for me in Hamburg”, - the veteran remembers, who lives in Boremwood, the suburb of London.
“The fact of I stayed alive made the greatest impression on me. I saw the death of my friends and colleagues. But there is slightly another perception I the war: you kill or you killed”, - Devis said.
“Also I consider important than in our school programmers of the lessons are kept, in which the Great Patriotic war is learnded. I’m always invited to make a speech to schoolchildren and I do it with pleasure, because I want to remind to offsprings about the lessons of the war”, - Devis finished.
Another veteran of Normand operation, Alan Bouars, who lives in Chesterfield, also confided with correspondent of RIA “Novosti” with his remembrances about last months of the war.
“Accompanying of the operation was kept in the strictest secret. We trained ourselves in Norfolk, where the conditions of locality were like the conditions in Normand. We knew we had to invade to France, but we didn’t know in which area, when and in what scales it would take place”, - Bouars said.
“A was in the advanced group, that landed in Normand on the 6th of June, 1944, nearly of 2 o’clok of night. My colleagues from polk of dukeWellingtone of the 49th infanfry divizion had to land later. We had to explore the territory for our battalion, that had occupied in three days later. Only sewen of ten members of the advanced group came back”, - he added.
“So, I crossed all Belgium and flolland, where the war had finished for me in spring of 1945” , - Glan Bouars remembers. He is 80 yers old, in that time he was 20 years old.
In one of the stages of the operation he took part in the liberation of a German fown of Ferde, where five thousand Soviet captives were kept. “There were nearly of 3 thousand women and 2 thousand men”, - Bouars said. “We had lberated them, they were in an awful, desperate condition. They were very glad to see us, Britain soldiers, who liberated them. We forwarded them to the Motherland, but what happened to them there, if they have stayed alive, I don’t rnow”, - he stated.
But he called something was seen by hem in Holland house the most charming story. “ We were going along the street, when a Holland approached to us and spoke in English: “Let’s go, I’ U show you something, that nobody had never seen”. If turned ouf to be that during nearly 5 years, from June, 1940, till Ipril, 1945, he hid a family of Jew musicions from the flamburg filarmonical orchestra in his hous. “ They fleed from the regim of nacists to Holland a day before its occupation bu Germfny”. And oll that time he kept them in his house. Even his neighbours didn’t know about it’,- the veteran tinished.
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