"I thought great, somebody's actually intervening, let me stand up because we've got much more chance as a team. Let's go!"
Two of the Americans were off-duty soldiers on holiday in Europe. One, Spencer Stone, held the gunman, 25-year-old Moroccan, Ayoub El-Khazzani, in a choke-hold, while the other, Alek Skarlatos, first took away the Kalashnikov, then a pistol that the gunman had pulled on him.
"I just pounced on the gunman's arm so that he couldn't actually use it, and I held his arm to the ground," Norman said. "We all held him until he stopped struggling."