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- Frank Skerratt T164114
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- Middle East; East Africa
- Article ID:听
- A3396125
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- 11 December 2004
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I was given 3 weeks leave to come home at the end of the summer 1943. I was being prepared for "1944" -- I reported at Carlisle, reformed.
I was sent to Normandy on D34. Our first job was to get the troops over the Rhine (terrible job-- it was nighttime and there were searchlights flashing). If the lorry broke down, you had to just cast it aside for recovery later.
I have awful memories of Belsen -- I saw people who were barely more than skeletons. We had to transport "Displaced Dutch Persons" who had been in a camp waiting to go into Belsen, then taken to Brussels for de-lousing etc. After we'd dtopped off one lot we had to go back for several trips, 20 to 25 people in each lorry.
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