- Contributed by
- BBC LONDON CSV ACTION DESK
- People in story:
- Mike Nibbs
- Location of story:
- Caen
- Background to story:
- Army
- Article ID:
- A5131153
- Contributed on:
- 17 August 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War website by a volunteer from CSV/BBC London on behalf of Mike Nibbs and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr.Nibbs fully understands the site’s terms and conditions
My father was a Royal Marine in World War 2 on landing craft 536 Flotilla off the SS Empire. I took him over to France last year for the 60th Anniversary of the D Day Landings and went to Caen and Sword Beach, and every one we saw when we were out there shook his hand and hugged him and just said thank you, which of course left him in floods of tears. They even opened a restaurant so that we could go in after they were closed. It was just like being royalty out there.
We were looking for a church that he saw when they came into Sword Beach, but we weren’t able to find it must have been blown to bits when they were on the way in.
Some of the stories he told me were obviously pretty gruesome. He still does not tell me all the gory details.
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