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I remember most vividly D- Day which I was involved in. June 6th 1944. I was just twenty. That's where it all started as far as I was concerned. I was in the Royal Navy and I was on a landing craft support vessel. All went well until we hit one of these underwater explosive devices that the Germans had put in. It blew a hole in the bottom. On the beach, I think the Royal Engineers came along with a big metal plate and they welded it on and off we went again. Then we got hit by a shell, just along the water line-again we got onto the beach and a patch was put on. A report appeared in the Yorkshire Post of the time. The two stokers on the ship were mentioned in dispatches.
After D-Day I was shipped off to India, but the war had ended and I got demobbed in 1946. I am in the Normandy veterans and I went back to celebrate the 60th anniversary.
During the war I learned to knit and I knitted mattinee coats for babies. It was very handy in the forces being able to sew. We had been taught it at junior school.
My wife was in munitions and worked at Brook Motors. It was a different world in those days to what

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