Going into action on D-Day
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Going into action on D-Day
Well it was early in the evening when, when we left and of
course there was hundreds of other ships and we ourselves were
travelling ‘in line of stern' they call it with the, and, of
course during the, during the night there was a lot of activity.
I was in the radar cabin of course at Action Stations most of
the time, but you're, you're not on the radar all the time
you're relieved because of your eyes and so on, so I had some
time to get out and get a bit of fresh air from time to time.
And all that night was just a constant roar of aircraft going
over, the bombers going into bomb the, both of the beaches and
the other transportation system and so on and then around
midnight I guess, I was out and again there were just hundreds
and hundreds of the aircraft which were the paratroopers. And
so all night, there was always, anytime I was out of the radar
cabin it seemed there was always just a continuous roar of
aircraft. And the other thing that, the mine sweepers of course
went in ahead of us and they set out buoys on each side of the
channel so that as we were going down the channels towards the,
towards the beaches, it was, we had somewhat of a light, they
were concealed lights, but they, it was just a matter of each
row of these ships following their, their way down the thing.
And we, we got off the beaches around, if I remember rightly,
around 5:30 or so, to our anchorage, which was about five miles
off the beach, which was at Berniéres-sur-Mer.
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