D-Eay +30

We went down in trucks and we were put right straight onto small ships, small boats and went over and we went across D +30, 30 days after D-Day, went up to the same beach. It was quite peaceful, there was all sorts of activity. People were going and coming, but the small ships were pulling in and I don’t even think we got our feet wet. I think we were on sort of a walkway that we could climb down off the, off the front of the landing craft and go up the beach and that was it, yeah. No problems there at all and went in, marched in, oh, three or four or five miles I guess before we made camp again. And then we were on the airport, we were on the outskirts of an airport, Carpiquet, as I remember where there was. What I remember there, the big guns from the ships, big shells going over just like a train and, of course, lots of air craft and firing, cannon firing all over the place, but the thing that really strikes you is all the dead animals in the fields, the cattle and horses, cattle mainly, yeah, but then you knew it was really, it was war then.