Stories categorised in 'D-Day+ 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
We anchored close to the battleships Warspiteand Ramillies and were surrounded by cruisers, destroyers and...
05:42 on June the 6th 1944 I left my troop ship the LSI HMS Princess Astrid and piloted my landing craft...
An impromptu football kick-about quickly started, in the course of which, a large Irish gunner named...
On June 5th, we were informed we would be unloading our vehicles by Rhino ferry on to a strip of beach...
On reaching the pathway to the front gate I was amazed to see Army vehicles parked outside our house. The...
Commander Buster Hallett was appointed to command 3 Naval Air Fighter Wing a month before D-Day. The Wing...
'The master of the household has received her majesties command to invite Mr Donald King to a luncheon...
"Having completed our first assignment, our landing craft did a U turn and we went back out to sea to...
Many years later my Dad was at a reunion talking to a Veteran and he mentioned Lt Col C.A.R. Nevill, and...
I was then drafted to H.M.S. Furious an Aircraft Carrier operating in the home fleet serving in Destroyers...
We had three landing beaches, Gold, Sword and Juno. On Juno beach the Canadian Sappers were storming a...
At the time of D-Day Geoff was a Flight Commander in Special Duties 138 Squadron which was equipped with...
I wear my poppy with pride and my 19-month-old daughter wore hers on Remembrance Day, and watched on TV the...
Often the sight of our big, cuddly, much loved Mama, struggling through the small opening of our shelter,...
My father was in the Royal Navy and during D-Day he was involved in the landing of a contingent of Scottish...
During my childhood, my twin brother and I were familiar with the the odd remnants of 'Bomb...
The compliment of his craft was 2 Stokers;2 Seamen; one L/H seaman and a Coxswain Petty Officer Willey...
Dear Mum and Dad. Well Dad, all I can say is, if jerry can't do better, he'd better pack in, for if...
Dawn of D-Day As D-Day dawned we were stiff and sore having slept on groundsheets on the floor of the LCT....
I was a six year old in May 1944, living in Coburg Road,Dorchester,Dorset,UK....
Mary Lees was a WAAF stationed at Ford and her best friend Audrey Hirst a WAAF stationed at Tangmere....
Our house was about a quarter of a mile from the main London to Portsmouth rail line, and just outside of...
My father, a stretcher bearer with 1st btn, the Highland Light Infantry, sailed to the Normandy beaches on...
He went on to play his part in the D Day Normandy landings on sword beach where he can still remember his...
At the beginning of June 1944 I was one of a number of teengage schoolboys travelling daily from Felixstowe...
In the weeks before D-Day, the unit was working day and night on a top secret project in a camouflaged...
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