One landing craft survives
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One landing craft survives
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Then once day break came, then the other thing was the
bombardment of the Naval ships, the battleships and cruisers and
other ships and in some cases they were firing over our ship.
We could hear the shells going over some of the time and we
could see the some of the explosions on the beach to some extent
as it came, although we were a fair distance away. And of
course we could see the flame and fire from the battleships and
cruisers, if they were near enough to us, we could see them in
the distance. But the beaches themselves, from my point of
view, I couldn't see them and again, a good part of the time
you're in the radar cabin as well so. On duty I was, my Action
Station was on the radar gunnery set and we didn't fire our guns
at all that day, so although if, you're there and everybody's
closed up, ready for action, we didn't ourselves have to fire
our guns and so on, that wasn't our job. We started, the troops
started loading around six o'clock in the morning and they were
due to land at about 7:30. So the first wave of the landing
craft went in. We lost all of our landing craft that day,
except one, but none of, we didn't lose any of our crew. They
managed to get back to the ship later but all, and the one
landing craft was really detailed as a communications landing
craft so it managed to survive and we
got one landing craft back later.
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