James Holland

And the leading troop gets knocked out.

Three tanks, boom, boom, boom, just like that by an anti-tank gun that they haven't seen.

John Hanson Lawson, who's the B squadron commander, gets wounded, his tank's burning.

Bill Wharton, who we've come across quite a lot, he jumps out of his tank, goes and rescues him.

Yeah.

And pulls him out.

And it's just, that's how quickly it can flip.

You can be 13-0 one day, you can be three knocked out in a trice the next day.

And that won't be the first time that happens, the last time that happens.

So they secure the ridge and then that's kind of, they're then kind of slightly demob happy after that.

And so they're all relaxed a bit.

But I think it's worth, just before we finish this episode and this fourth episode in this series, of just going through

what John Semkin has had to do in that 24 hours of Monday, the 26th of June.

I mean, it is quite extraordinary.

This is the pressure these guys are under.

And don't forget that Semkin, age 23, is a squadron commander with, you know, 150 men under his charge.

So you kick off

00.30, so half past midnight.

And that's an O group with Stanley Christopherson and the senior officers.

So an O group is an orders group.