My friend Harry joined the army as a regular and became a paratrooper... An officer survived but was badly...
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The first Port of call was 鈥楩reetown鈥 and all went to the side to look and smell the land. But...
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At Simon's Town we disembarked and were put onto a GPO boat and sailed up the Red Sea to Egypt... The...
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It was D+1 when I arrived at 鈥淕old Beach鈥 opposite Arromanches as a member of a gun crew with a...
We moved into the town over as assault bridge which had been put into place by an Armoured Vehicle Royal...
He told me that they had a German officer prisoner who'd given his word that he'd sit quietly for...
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The dark cloud was a mass of whirling sand, and within minutes we were in the midst of it, being buffeted,...
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