We get out into the open and are seen, kapow! the paratrooper says.
We dashed out onto the road, there was a field, sunflowers, and a checkpoint, he continues. They started to bomb it bam bam bam and they destroyed it.
Eighty guys were killed, said the paratrooper, who was wounded in the attack. He added: I was told only 10 made it out.
Withdrawn but keeps them nearby. That is not really what you call “withdrawn”.