This is the thing that always gets me. Moments like that, or going over the top into a hail of machine gun fire. Unimaginable. Depictions of those men waiting to go, writing letters home, be it in fiction or documentary form just choke me up.
Most of them were under the bombs weren't they? :(
I started reading Anthony Beevor's book on D-Day after seeing that excellent before and after photo series that the Guardian did. Incredible stuff.