D-Day+ 1944

D Day Landing Anniversary

I took him over to France last year for the 60th Anniversary of the D Day Landings and went to Caen and...

The Forgotten Ship

Our landing beach was Sword... Fortunatey Sword Beach was British occupied and with its high percentage of...

D-Day Landings

D-Day Dover's role in fooling the Germans was that the attack on Europe would come from the Dover area....

Watching D-Day begin - in Much Hadham

The D-Day Veteran

I asked the old man with the Normandy Veterans badge what it was like when the ramp at the front of the...

d-day

My father was on the bridge of his LCT at, I think, sword beach. He was hit 3 times in the chest...

Copyright infringement

I was flying over Juno Beach, watching allied soldiers being shot and dying... The surrounding...

Vere's D-Day

My land army girl friend Joe and I leaned on our hoes and waved up at them saying a silent prayer for...

Mock up for D-Day in Morayshire

I was staying with my Granny in Burghead. The army used the beach for a practice for the D-Day landings. A...

Gold Coast

We were told that eventually we were being posted overseas to ''Gold Coast'' — which...

Ammunition for the Normandy landings

I was based in Cardiff, as a drive with number 7MT. My driver number was 1423588 and I had to haul the...

Working as a mine detector

I was working up at Brymbo Steelworks at the start of the war, but I got called up into the army...

Are you sure?

The day before d-day me and my friends, Ben Bennet, David Jackson and Micheal Santa Cruz were sent with the...

DLI 11th Battalion

He was with the DLI 11th Battalion which trained at Thetford. They left Thetford on the 8 June 1944 and...

Gold Beach

I landed on Gold Beach on June 6th 1944 as part of the Second Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. HMS...

Decoy Landing Craft

In March 1944 he was building decoy Landing Craft in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. During this time German...

Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt1

This photograph relates to the following story entries: A5561976 A5562362 A5562506 A5562597 A5562687....

D-Day Loss

Eric was my uncle, my mother's brother. Derrick Chapman __________________________________________...

My brass Thunderbolt...

I still have a brass model of a Thunderbolt fighter thatwas given to me in exchange for a German Helmet....

Relating to the last Story

The above mamed was my eldest brother and he had been wounded on the outskirts of Brussels in a mopping up...

Ralph Rayner - Bulldozer

Ralph Rayner - aged 17 1/2 - Royal Engineers... Trained for D.Day in Suffolk and landed on D.Day H.Hour...

The day after D Day

The young man in the centre of the picture was my father Kenneth Phillips aged 19 of the 5th East Yorkshire...

Ralph Rayner

Trained for D.Day in Suffolk and landed on D.Day H.Hour operating armoured bulldozer to clear beach...

Stories from the Hoddesdon NVA

a wartime decoder

Joined Genetral Eisenhower's staff taking messages "for his eyes only". Willing to be contacted...

Invasion!!! by Carla Lawrence

When my granda was about five years old, he went outside one day, and he looked up towards the air field...