D-Day+ 1944

A Gunner’s View of D-Day

The regiment was equipped with heavily-armoured “Priests” — basically an American 105mm...

Tanks and Parachutes [B.Barney]

It was chaos and badly planned; only one tank got to Arnhem bridge. Working for Bertrum Mills and the...

Brief account of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WW2

The 2nd, 1/7th and 8th Battalions were part of the BEF in France and Belguim. It soon became clear that the...

My Wartime Memories, Cornwall

I remained good friends with the other two girls who started up the station and in spite of spending 25...

D-Day June 6th 1944: A Sailor on LCG 3

April 1944 OA3 Base - Royal Navy Ordnance Workshop 101 Shed Terminal, Southampton Docks. I found myself...

D-Day: Memories from the Home Front in Trowbridge

Trowbridge was one of those towns completely taken over by the military during the war and the area where I...

Salisbury 1940 to D-Day

We believed that the Germans used Salisbury Cathedral to fix their position, before heading to the real...

D-Day

D Day Landings Gold Beach D Field C/JX319894 H.M.S. Eglinton. I had joined my ship H.M.S. Eglinton a Hunt...

"My Longest Night" sailing to the Normandy Beaches.

The next morning found us anchored off the Isle of Wight, waiting for the rest of the convoy and our...

Prelude to D-Day

What follows is an extract from a letter written by Lieutenant George Criddle R.N., serving in HMS...

My Grandad in the War: With 398 RASC Company

This was ok till just before Christmas we were due for leave and at the last minute it was cancelled and we...

Wullie's War

After camp at Wales I applied to join the Navy going to Glasgow and passing maths and English and medical...

World War 2 D. Day Landings

Recently this all came back to me when I found a Dutch Bible in my husband's study, found by me during...

The Lock Gates at Ouistreham

Ouistreham is the town on the north-west coast of France where the canal from Caen comes in to the sea, so...

D-Day the Build Up Through the Eyes of a 14 Year Old Boy: In Weymouth and Portland

Weymouth and Portland were the main ports of embarkation for landing on the beach known as Omaha... The...

From D-Day to SEAC

After several years service in the Royal Corps of Signals,I was posted to Troon, in Scotland, to join...

Don Jennings Experiences of the War

Several months prior to D-day I was engaged in training to waterproof vehicles. I used to take the vehicles...

Allied Troops in the Forest of Bere Before D-Day

Some 300 yards from the cottage was the Forest of Bere, a vast woodland, and situated in the wood and very...

The Normandy Veterans: Lest We Forget

During the period October 1998 to September 2002 I worked upon a documentary photographic project with...

D-Day and the Normandy Beaches

D Day Operation - Gerry McMahon

Gerry McMahon, was serving as a flying officer rear-gunner when his four engine Short Stirling bomber was...

Sick of Getting His Feet Wet

My father, George Brown, now deceased, was a 24 year old corporal with the 8th batallion of the Durham...

Memories of 1944: A Child in Torquay

At this time we had an American officer, Colonel Storey, billeted with us, and he would often bring...

Bernard (Taffy) Morgan Code and Cypher RAF

Bernard Morgan Code and Cypher RAF. 83 G.C.C. moved off the beach to our first Operational Site in France,...

Arromanches Adventure

During the evening of the 5th of june we set of for normandy, in th company of thousands of other ships and...

D Day Behind the Scenes

For six years, I served as a teleprinter operator in the Royal Corps of Signals and in 1943 was sent to a...