Stories categorised in 'D-Day+ 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
There were stories in the newspaper we could now afford to buy about black-clad Romans bombing the...
Lt Hutchinson had to take out a fighting patrol, to try and get a German prisoner, and he picked his trusty...
The fishing port of Port-en Bessin was set as the dividing line between the Anglo-American armies and was...
Return to the Beach This wasn't as easy as it sounds, after crouching and crawling back down the road...
My other four serving brothers were George, Royal Artillery, Jack, Royal Artillery, Joe, Army Fire Service...
The first vehicles to arrive were civil defence vans like Lance Corporal Jones’ butcher's van...
HDML1383 and her crew, 1944 Here is a true-life story, written by my father-in-law, 'Engineman'...
Unfortunately the sea was dead calm and we didn't land them onto a beach, they just stepped off at Rye...
At 22:30 Monday June 5th 1944, Danny and his mates struggled aboard their Stirling aircraft and waited for...
It was July 17th when we entered the cavernous belly of an LST in the FAP half-track driven by Piper...
First to land would be Major Howard and his Section to capture the Benouville canal bridge,now known as...
Because the weather was that bad the Landings were cancelled for twenty-four hours, from the 5th to the 6th...
Eventually, on the morning of the 6th, a Tuesday, we heard the unit open air transmitters, giving out...
We were to organise temporary dumps of ammunition, petrol and food in the sand dunes to back up immediate...
I lived in Caen, a city in Normandy, before the start of the war, and became involved in the French...
In this excerpt, I describes my part in the D-Day Landings on Juno Beach and being wounded in action. Once...
The following diary of the events around the D-Day Landings was written by my father, Edward Francis...
Reposted to join a new battalion A few days before embarkation, however, I and a number of others, mostly...
Here's a British Soldier who landed in France on D-day....
At the end of that I joined the 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, which at the time was...
Capturing Bridges Across the Oder and Oden Rivers On or about three weeks after D-Day we, that's the...
In the run-up to D-Day I was commanding the 3rd Parachute Brigade in the 6th Airborne Division....
Suddenly at around 05.30hrs a small flotilla of German “E” boats appeared out of the smoke...
At the time, General Morgan was working on the plans for the D-Day invasion, so my work was extremely...
The Primosole Bridge was captured from the Germans after continued assaults from the Durham Light Infantry...
Commanding a section I was in the 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50th Division, and we...
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