![]() Regular customers, within two minutes they were They strolled west along the bridge road, then turned south (left) at the T-junction, and were on the road into Benouville. They decided they were not sleepy and agreed to go to the local brothel, in the village of Benouville, for a bit of fun. As Bonck went off duty, he met with his fellow sentry, another Pole. On the bridge, Private Vern Bonck, a twenty-two-year-old Pole conscripted into the German Army, clicked his heels sharply as he saluted Private Helmut Romer, an eighteen-year-old Berliner. At 0000 hours, June 5/6, 1944, the scudding clouds parted sufficiently to allow the nearly full moon to shine and reveal the bridge, standing starkly visible above the shimmering water of the Caen Canal. It was a steel-girder bridge, painted gray, with a large water tower and superstructure. ![]()
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