D-Day+ 1944

Teamwork at D-Day

It was. Quite a lot. The Recruiting Sgt in Belfast came from Lurgan, and whenever I took my Oath of...

My D-day

We left the Isle of White at dawn on D-day morning and landed at Normandy in an American Rhino Ferry, which...

My personal recolections of the war

I was a parachutist in the senth battalion Parachute Regt. which took of from fairford in gloucestershire...

Admiralty tanks for D-Day

On D-Day, someone at the factory came in and said they've landed our tanks in Normandy... We found out...

D-Day Omaha Beach

1943, we sailed from Plymouth on HMS Belloma Light Cruiser. There were about 300 men on board, I was a...

HMS Largs

I joined the Army in 1943 and after 6 months intensive training I got my posting to HMS Dundonald which was...

Arthur Ibbotson from Keswick, Cumbria, a Normandy Veteran

Arthur took part in the Normandy Landings, landing at ‘Sword Beach’ in the ‘British...

My Air-raid Siren

I could also hear the noise of the sirens going off at Frejus. This story has been entered on the site by...

Wartime On The Ocean Waves: James Donnelly from Distington, Cumbria

James Donnelly is from Distington, Cumbria, a village between Workington and Whitehaven....

Cheering The Landing Craft

My sisters, friends and I used to play in dry bomb craters and bomb damaged houses with blown off doors and...

The Displacement Camps

In this way they could listen and watch and suss out Germans who may be traitors amongst the people in the...

D.Day Invasion (1)

On June 6th 1944 I was a Captain in the Royal Engineers Movements and Transport Section and along with my...

Before D-day Western France

I did many landings in my time in world war two 18 infact here are some storys of what i have done...

D plus 3

Landing Commandos on D Day

I helped to land commandos on D Day....

'BEACHCOMBING'

Beachcombing’ I lived at Dyfred Street, Barry Island for the beginning of 1941 until 1947... The...

Dublin Chaplain to the Brit Army

But my uncle Paddy Crane was a British Army chaplain and he was awarded the MBE for his services. He often...

British Normandy Landing

Our 1st wave of Landing Craft Assault got the troops on board to go to the beaches, I was in the 2nd...

Return of the Brave

We took the wounded off Gold Beach and onto the ship... We had got out to sea when the Captain discovered...

My War

As a Royal Signals Radio Operator, after training from January 1942,and a period of time with the 79th...

My War

Soon I joined the "Home Guard" and as I was only 16 going on 17, was a "messenger boy". I...

My part during the war

I was on landing in Normandy and served in the liberation of France, Belgium and Holland . I took part in...

Mulberry Harbours-D_Day memories

Derek Jowett was in the Royal ArtillaryAlthough from Otley Yorkshire,he was based in Sussex to prepare for...

Muiberry Harbour

The school moved to two holiday hotels overlooking the sea- The Bristol Channel- when convoys used to pass...

Mulberry Harbour

The school moved to two holiday hotels overlooking the sea- The Bristol Channel- when convoys used to pass...

Supply Trips To Normandy

His story was given to the Trebah Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. D Day came...