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M. G. Hughes
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Bebington
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08 December 2005

I was in Civil Defence part-time, Mersey Park School, at the beginning of the war and later I joined the forces. I was a trooper, in gliders which took light tanks!
In Liverpool I witnessed the aftermath of a landmine dropped on Mill Road Maternity Hospital — horrifying images.
I took part in the support forces, flying in supplies, Bren guns carriers, light tanks, motorbikes, etc. for the Normandy landings.
I was patrolling a wood in Normandy with my troop when we came across a German group of conscripted Poles who wanted to surrender to us, later they vanished, they were actually Germans pretending to be Poles!
At Port Leveque an officer who took money from the offertory box at the church, was shot as he went out by a sniper opposite, judgement from heaven?

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