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Squadrons practiced training on rafts at Bawdsey. Butley Mills pond was used for trials of the...
But in particular and in June 1944, Norman was aboard a tank landing craft in the Solent waiting out the...
About April 1944 we were transferred to Immingham on the Humber from where we did nightly patrols to thwart...
The Crossing of the English Channel and Landing Then on the evening of June fourth, we marched onto the...
The army was a few miles in land but all credit to those who, a few hours before, had lifted the mines...
We took our share of the enemy shelling and bombing again and during the air raid that night, one German...
We went to a place called Noyers crossroads where a German Tiger Tank was stationed... The Falaise gap,...
The climate and dry Normandy roads were not to advantage particularly on one occasion when two recovery...
I first served as a stoker in the Tribal Class destroyer HMS Afridi which was bombed and sunk in the first...
As night fell the drone of the German planes and the navy ack ack guns gave us a very good firework...
There were swarms of refugees crossing,we had to dive under the bridge for protection as the German planes...
A few days later, when the German advance was in full, "blitzkrieg" flow I left Warsaw and...
My driver with Madeleine in the jeep led the way, towing the German car... Shortly before we reached the...
Shot to pieces by a Panzer division Then it was up to St Valery sur Bresle, near Aumale, where our...
But let's get back to the 2nd phase of the armoured thrust by the combined force of BCR tanks and...
To assist him, the Embarkation Officer would instruct an Officer from one of the waiting groups to call out...
When I took my annual school battlefields tour on a special visit to Dunkirk in 2000, Charlie kindly wrote...
The Brigade consisted originally of three Infantry Regiments, all regular or regular reservists, 1sr...
Their Lordships, unknown to all concerned, were planning something sinister, for in March 1942 there...
He then went to Chichester, Sussex, where he carried out convoy escorts in the English Cannel and raids...
We were based in Southampton harbour, where prior to D-Day we loaded up with seven tanks with blow-up...
Donald was later to meet up with this young German girl in Czestochowa and to save her from the liberating...
Sgt in charge of Platoon and to left of Sgt. Bren 25 yds to left of Sgt. Rifle close to and left...
As soon as we landed - whether it was a stray German shell or what or a lucky one - a shell...
The situation on the beach was pretty chaotic with damaged craft in and on the water, and the occasional...
As a result of my reasonably fluent French, I was called upon to act as interpreter between the lieutenant...
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