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N.B. SergeantSgt. Chester Hawks hails from Sussex, New Brunswick, and at one time lived in Hillsborough, Albert County, N B where he worked at the New Brunswick Gas Company and was prominent in ! baseball and hockey circles.Quite a few Jerries who are now prisoners of war no doubt wish that Chester, and all his comrades! from' Eastern Canada, had never j come to Europe. So did a lot more i of their pals before they took the last count somewhere in France.At 2400 hours one fateful day, Chester’s machine gun platoon dug . in on a forward point somewhere near Falaise. They were on high ground commanding a road that ran through a valley below. At six o’clock next morning a large contingent of Germans, mainly on foot but with some horse drawn and a few motor transport vehicles, was spotted making its way towards one end of the valley. The platoon officer gav the order and S3r-geant Hawkes passed it on: ’’Fire!”The Germans, caught completely by surprise, broke and ran under the devastating fire of Vickers machine guns ‘^manned by able crews. They made for the fields beside the road and even tried to climb the hills on both sides but the machine guns seemed to have an uncanny way of following each 1 group and each individual German soldier as he scurried for safety. Only 300 men came out of that trap out of,a total of 1500, and many of them were wounded.aimed his MGtv
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Brussels Maple Leaf Belgium Edition
Brussels, Brussels, BE
Tue, Oct 17, 1944
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