By summer 1941, the number of German troops in Rue was noticeably less. May had been moved eastwards and those that remained were older and were more focused on rest and recovery. The British had started inflicting damage onto German equipment. According to residents, the train that had brought German soldiers to Rue been peppered with bullets by the RAF and looked like a ‘sieve’. The same account also tells of a tragedy inflicted on the British in Canteraine, just outside Rue. A German anti-aircraft gun which was located in a quarry called the ‘Limestone Oven’ managed to shoot down a British bomber. The crew fell from the plane. They managed to pull their parachutes and landed in a group of ponds to the north of Rue. However, they were badly wounded. They had been shot multiple times and became tangled in their parachute cords which eventually caused them to drown.