Crossing of the English Channel

The, the sixth came along and we took off. And the sea was still very, very, the English Channel was very rough. They had bunks on, on each side of the landing craft. Three layers and I was lucky I thought to be on the bottom layer. But the guy on the third layer was sick, and oh hell, and he wasn’t the only one. You know what that rough water, never in all my life made me sea sick, and I was on ships many, many times, rough and everything and never, never sick, touch wood. My wife can’t even get in a row boat. I had to put that in. But anyways we, between that we had to wait and get the order to move again. So, the second was the third and then the fourth we started moving up some. But then, all of a sudden there off and we’re going across the channel. The water was so rough that one of the moorings on, on couple of, of a Bren guns broke, and it was just like a domino thing. Well, it’s a good thing that some of us were out to the carrier and I was checking something on my carrier. But there were other people there. Making sure, checking the chains and everything. And just happened to look, and I could see this thing moving with the and it was one of the carriers. It wasn’t mine but it was somebody else’s. So I, I alerted some of the guys and I was pointing over because the sea was making them, the storm was so rough that. Anyways we got the men out. We were very, very lucky otherwise it would have had domino sequence and it would’ve been forget about going out there, on the invasion. We’re still looking forward to this.