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the normendy invasions probably the most momentous event of the second world war being as it was to start of a whole new phrase that ended in the defeat of germany in 1945.I was a parachutist in the senth battalion Parachute Regt. which took of from fairford in gloucestershire and land in normandy before 1:00 am on the sixth of the june 1944 . Our objective was to reinforce a glider-borne task force that capture the two bridges near Ranille about 10 miles in land from the invasion beaches where the sea-borne troops were landing in the early hours.Those bridges were crucial to our success as theuy would have been main routes to the beaches. Our parachute descent was opposed by the Germans during the drop and in subsequent days.
My platoon suffered 25 or more casulties out of a strength of 40.
One plane was shot down with complete loss of parachutists.We remained in normandy in active service conditions until August when we returned to the UK by which time the batallion was down to 20% in numbers. We were reinforced and brought to our proper strength in the UK

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