D-Day+ 1944

Preparation for D-Day: With an LCT Flotilla

The beach heads by this time were being shelled by Capital ships and what sticks in my memory as our...

D-Day Memories - 284 Field Regiment

The unit same as all others building up for the Big Day.First before D-Day we were sent to the East Coast...

Dick's War

Dick has been all over the world, he has fought in lots of different countries including Germany, Dunkirk,...

A Child on D-Day: Pately Bridge, West Riding

At Pately Bridge we used to visit Grantley Hall, where Canadian casualties where on convalescence. If the...

Falaise

After Mezidon the war office officer with a section of “Free French” took us to Falaise in...

92 LAA Regt. Loss of the SS Sambut on D-Day

Fox Troop of 318 Battery having gone on separately to land on D-Day the rest of the Regiment and transport...

The Advance Party!

It was D+1 when I arrived at “Gold Beach” opposite Arromanches as a member of a gun crew with a...

Landing Craft at Omaha Beach

I was with them when they landed on Omaha beach at about 6.30am. We spent about three weeks going over to...

Switchboard Operator (SHAEF)

April 1944, we girls were at Bushey Park, Kingston Upon Thames, attached to Supreme Headquarters Allied...

My Parents' D Day

This is my father's account of his D Day: "We embarked from Southampton, joining a vast armada,...

Children's War Effort: Devonshire Road Junior School, Blackpool

The picture with this story shows The Children of Miss Peate's class in the various Costumes designed...

Anti Submarine Patrols on D-Day

We operated in Escort groups, and patrolled along defined lines, ours being from the Isles of Scilly across...

Joseph Casson from Whitehaven, Cumbria, 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry

Joseph Casson from Whitehaven in what was then Cumberland was a member of the 9th Battalion of the Durham...

Normandy Landing 6th June

The captain of the ship took us in to land as far as he could but it was still too deep for...

A Wren Remembers the Build-up to D-Day

Sword Beach Fusiliars with 3 Div

Sword beach/Red 3 Div my fathers name is Robert Gardiner and at the time of the war he was a Royal fusilier...

1st Wave on D Day

Arrived off Sword Beach at Dawn... I was holding a rifle with front pouches of grenades, 2 bandoliers of...

Churchill Mk VII Crocodile

My Parents Contribution

Dad took part in D-Day and admits to being scared... But this was not to be, as one minute they were...

Normandy - A Poem

Naval guns bombardment, shattering the dawn sky, Whistling of shells falling, and exploding close by,...

Harry Pollitt and D-Day

Harry went over in a glider that time on D-Day, and he has taken us over to France and shown us where...

A Soldiers Story: 3rd Canadian Division on D-Day

After a relatively quiet period, Sydney was in Northern France, when the storm broke and the German...

The Dry Cleaning Bill.

"It`s my son`s", explained Nan, "he was in the Normandy landings" "Oh" said the...

The Sunken Lorry

His unit had gone ashore at Sword beach and he was to drive a lorry off a landing craft or ship onto...

Ouistreham

It was during his short time ashore as he was securing a property near the beach when he came across the...

A Teenagers Memories of the Build-Up to D-Day

My pal, Leslie and I had heard that the Yanks were at Frampton-on-Severn and so that Sunday in June we set...