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I was nearly nineteen years old when D-day happened. I was working in Southampton Docks as a tractor driver. There were three or four of us. One of the girls - now in her eighties - is still a friend.
The tractors were doing the work of the shunting engines which had already been shipped over to the front.
We had been very busy for weeks, helping load freighters with thousands of cans of petrol and wagonloads of cases of ammunition and other stores.
It seemed that suddenly the army started coming through. Brirish, American and Canadians. Every road in the area was filled with arnoured tanks, vehicles and men. Then one morning, it was different. The rush was over. We guessed that the invasion had started. There was now just a steady flow of stores - until - the hospital ships came into port loaded with injured British troops, and thousands of German prisoners of war were brought in to hastily built compounds. But that's another story.

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