- Contributed byÌý
- Kathleen Cooper
- People in story:Ìý
- Kathleen Florence Cooper, Edgar Horace Cooper, Jill Kathleen Cooper
- Location of story:Ìý
- Watford
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3320975
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 24 November 2004
D-Day Memories
June 6th 1944 — I was then living near Watford and was woken in the early hours by an unusual continuous roaring sound of aircraft.
I dashed to the window to see the amazing sight of a sky full of aircraft towing gliders, so grabbed my 2½ year old daughter Jill out of her bed to see a sight that would be one of the turning points of the War.
A short while later the first invasion communiqué from General Eisenhower’s H.Q. was given out over the radio, and I then realised that, after many anxious years, there was the possibility that my husband would soon be released from a P.O.W. camp in Germany and see his daughter for the first time. We had another year to wait for the re-union, but there was hope.
D-Day Memories
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