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Suddenly at around 05.30hrs a small flotilla of German “E” boats appeared out of the smoke...
As the SSR and Canadian Cameron Highlanders came ashore at Green Beach in Pourville between 4.50 and 5.30...
At the time, General Morgan was working on the plans for the D-Day invasion, so my work was extremely...
Additionally, one of the most important religious feasts was 29th June, the Feast Day of Saints Peter and...
The Officer who was in charge of our football team was posted to Headquarters and ran the football team...
A dozen Stukas attack the mole, and two destroyers and a few trawlers alongside suffer damage. The...
The Primosole Bridge was captured from the Germans after continued assaults from the Durham Light Infantry...
Prior to Dunkirk we were in the first and second battle of Narvik and we were also in the evacuation of...
The Germans unleashed 29 Divisions north of us and a further 45 Divisions through the Ardennes which...
In 1998 they had tried yet again to find Barry for research for Bernard's exhibition but with so many...
If you read the history of the war you will realise that we were part of a concentration of French and...
In the winter of 1942/1943 his division dug in outside of Stalingrad, where the most memorable of his...
The Flt Engineer, Sgt Bob Drongeson, the Bombaimer, Sgt Bernard Taylor, Navigator, Warrant Officer Nik Zuk,...
Sometime that night, I crawled away into the dunes, I was not only exhausted, I was feeling so bad that I...
My parents were at the time of the arrival of Harold and I living in Northern France and by the laws of...
Rather I remember it as a happy time because the war in Europe was clearly going to end soon, though I have...
At dawn I picked up a bren carrier and we hurtled along the cliff top to Veules les Roses, a small hamlet...
Commanding a section I was in the 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50th Division, and we...
Non-military people mentioned by name are his wife, Elise, and a sister, Gladys. 1st after Trinity A very...
With one of my friends I climbed up in the church tower and had a jolly time ringing the church bells...
Whilst taking my aircraft through the evasive manoeuvres, anxiously awaited news from his crew:...
Shortly after our arrival a returning force of landing craft close to us was shelled by a German battery...
At the same time the call came to move off — which my comrades had to do, leaving me with a bike...
'Oh, I see,' she says, 'My son in law, Bernard, is in the army... I've watched him standing...
Granfa's ship had to negotiate this stretch of water in order to land. Granfa was lucky enough to land...
In November we got orders to prepare to move, and one evening were transported to Famagusta again, leaving...
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