D-Day+ 1944

DLI on D-Day 2: The Bocage

My father, David Wallis, spoke often of the coincidences that he experienced during the war, the odd little...

A Sky Full Of Gliders

At about 6am on the morning of the 6th June 1944,1 was travelling upstairs on a Bradford Corporation bus...

Night Shift at The Admirality

The machines clattered away constantly printing out their messages, some in plain English and others in...

Albert Malin’s Story

Sept 3rd 1939, Albert's 13 birthday and he hoped at his very young age that the war would continue so...

Geoffrey Bulless-Normandy beaches

On the beach, I think the Royal Engineers came along with a big metal plate and they welded it on and off...

Fox Troop at Pegasus and Horsa Bridges

As a wireless operator I landed with Fox Troop of 318 Battery 92nd LAA Regt RA.on Sword Beach on D-Day......

Remembering D-Day: Sweets from the Americans

Behind our house on what had been a large country estate, called Cadewell Estate, a large American army...

Red Berets

Ack-ack alley was where the Germans could get to them, and the sobbing sisters was the noise the guns...

Poem - Invasion

No sound was heard on that cold grey morn When the life of France was once more born No bugler played his...

Nurse's Memories of D-Day

Margaret Phillips age 79....

Landing on Gold Beach

When Dad passed away after a long gruelling illness he was cremated locally, but we were requested to take...

Civilian Contribution to D-Day

He was retained for civilian work and all through the war was in portsmouth keeping the telephones working...

Jack Nash K.O.Y.L.I.

It was the 4th Battalion of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. On September 1st 1939 I was called up....

D-Day Experience:Childhood Memories in Liss

Around the area where we lived in Liss, Hampshire, there were many military camps and so on D Day thousands...

Wartime Torquay

At 3pm Sunday Torquay was attacked by 21 Fokker aircraft, each carrying a 1,000lb bomb and armed with...

Our Story

Jean was joined by other World War 2 veterans, who all gave their own input to the interview. Jean had lost...

A Drink on the Beach

Lt Greig was a platoon commander in the first wave to go ashore on 6th June 1944. Th platoon waded ashore...

Gold: 1st Hampshire Regiment

My father, who died eight years ago at age 81, was in the 1st Hampshire regiment and landed on Gold Beach...

Unknown Soldier

My namesake was a 19 year old Canadian soldier who was killed on the 15/08/1944 outside Caen 6 month after...

An English Corporal on Omaha Beach

Unable to fly as the result of a burst ear drum, he was sent to Omaha, Normandy on secondment to one of...

The Longest Day

It was the year 1944 june the 6th as the the royle navel went over the channel to france there was five...

D-Day Memories of George Layton

Mr George Anderson Layton was born on 21st July 1921 and married to Doris Goodrum at Crosshill, Codnor on...

D-Day Remembered

I was then a pupil at South County Junior School, West Bridgford, Nottingham. On 6 June 1944, the...

First Pluto Across

Roughly about 0200hrs on the 6th of June 1944 our ship rendezvoused with two 'Sun' tugs towing...

Le Pont de la Guillette - a bridge to far ....

They were ordered off the main road to a lane off on the right leading to "The Bridge". They soon...

Aboard the Armada

We sailed for France from Portland harbour the night before, stopping 5 miles offshore waiting for dawn to...