- Contributed by
- comet441
- People in story:
- roy handforth
- Location of story:
- sword beach
- Background to story:
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:
- A5946852
- Contributed on:
- 28 September 2005
My father was on the bridge of his LCT at, I think, sword beach. He was hit 3 times in the chest by German sharpshooters firing from the light house at Arromanches. He survived thanks to a bullet proof vest given to him by his mother for a 21st birthday present. I remember him telling me his ship was near HMS Warspite. By training his glasses on her main guns, he was able to glimpse the 15" shells just as they left the muzzles. The light house was reduced by fire from Oerlikons on his ship. Later, on going ashore, he found the bodies of the snipers in the rubble.
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