The final cavalry charge
Janus Loomans was in hiding at his home in the hamlet of Ommelse Bos. On the morning of September 22, 1944, he thought he was dreaming.
Janus Loomans was in hiding at home in the hamlet of Ommelse Bos. On the morning of September 22, 1944, he thought he was dreaming. He saw about seventy German soldiers on horseback riding past, led by the fanatical one-armed Major Heinrich Hoffer. What Major Hoffer didn’t know was that the British had dug in their tanks between Asten and Ommel: the Germans were riding straight into their doom. Janus witnessed the inglorious downfall of the once-proud German cavalry. In a barrage of tank machine-gun fire, about forty horses and riders lost their lives.
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