James Holland
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And we've stood there, haven't we?
Yeah, we have.
And that's a joint kill between Neville Fern and George Dring.
Neville Fern hits a shot at the back and then Dring knocks it out.
Yeah, it's absolutely amazing, this engagement, because by the end of the day, it is getting quite dark.
They have to call it off because you can't have tanks
at the front in darkness because infantry can infiltrate in the middle of the night and drop a grenade down the, you know, into the hatch and all that kind of stuff.
So you have to pull back.
So you just have to, they haven't quite got the village, but they've almost got it.
They're on the ridge, but they haven't completely cleared the village, but it's just too dark to carry on.
So they stop.
But in that engagement,
That suicide charge, which Semkin fears is going to be the last for all of them, worries that they're all going to get wiped out.
They knock out 13 enemy tanks for none of their own.
Wow.
Including, I think it's four Tigers.
Incredible.
Yeah, which is all from Whitman's
Heavy.
And it is extraordinary.