A képeken nagyjából látszódik, hogy dagálykor is lehettek akár 4-500m-re a géppuska csövétől. Ezzel össze is vág a visszaemlékezése:
""For the next nine hours in machine gun nest 62, Corporal Severloh sprayed
the beach with his MG-42. His position 75ft above the broad sands gave him
a perfect field of vision and fire.
"There were 30 of us," he said. "Every one had only one thought in our
heads that day-would we be coming out of this alive?"
"I didn't want to be in this war. I didn't want to be in France. I didn't
want to shoot a machine gun at young fellows my age. But there we were,
serving in a war that was already lost and obeying the orders of our
Lieutenant-to open fire as soon as they were knee-deep in water"
Having survived a spell of duty on the Eastern Front, France was a 'soft
billet' for men like Hein Severloh. That ended in the pallid dawn light of
June 6, 1944, as the Allied armies stormed ashore.
Corporal Severloh had 12,000 rounds for his machine gun.
"I started shooting at 5am," he said. "I was still shooting nearly nine
hours later.
There was no panic, no hate. One did what one had to do and knew that they
as sure as hell would be doing it to you if they got the chance"
"At first the corpses were 500 metres away, then 400, then 150. There was
blood everywhere, screams, dead and dying. The swell of the sea bobbed
more bodies onto the beach.""
Máshol azt olvastam még tőle, hogy azért volt könnyű céloznia, mert a vízben kiválóan látta a lövéseit hova mennek és a katonák csak vánszorogtak a vízben, nem tudtak futni. Gondolom a homokos parton ugyanez volt, a lövések felverődéséből tökéletesen lehetett gyorsan és hatékonyan pontosítani a tűzvezetésén.
Leszögezném, NEM hiszem, hogy megölt 2000 embert, max. megsebesített ennyit.