< Previous page| You are on page 5 of 24 |Next page > Stories categorised in 'D-Day+ 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. Recommended storiesMy father, John McCredie, was a Royal Marine who served initially on HMS Birmingham and then from El... The plan was to launch them some miles off the beach at H-50 to arrive on the beach at H hour as... Their part of the Italian campaign seemed to be going well so they felt that there was good reason to... D-Day minus 3 night time and I was on my bunk asleep. I was woken by an horrendous noise and shudder. D-Day... During the D-Day period I was a Red Cross VAD working as an Operating Room Assistant at the Royal Naval... The next day we lead the flotilla as we headed for our landing site, 'Gold Beach'. We had been told... These headquarters were principally meant to test the operation of weapons when landings were taking place... Round about 10 or 12 days after, German aircraft came over looking for the FDT ships and two days later,... It was at this point Jim saw a glint from a spotters field glasses high in a church tower overlooking the... He departed from Lee-on-Solent late on 5 June 1944, sailed through the night and landed at 07:30 on 6 June... I landed on Juno beach with the Canadians on the morning of 6th June 1944. As dictated by Sergeant 2347335... "Although the atmosphere of impending invasion of France was constantly in evidence, a take-off at 4... Do not call me hero, When you see the medals that I wear, Medals maketh not the hero, They just prove that... On June 5th 1944 as wireless operator in Halifax LL 344 piloted by Flight/O Clapperton we took off at 2300... | 
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