Juno Beach

It was the 6th of June, 1944, I was supposed to go in. We didn’t go in on the first, on Juno Beach as they called it. Being a reconnaissance, they sent in some heavy tanks, most of them got bogged down right on the beach but the infantry, once they got in about a mile, two miles, then we’d come in and that was about two or three days later before we landed with our vehicles. We were out at sea just sitting there waiting. We were on an American LST, landing ship tank as they called it, an LST, we were on one of them, the best food we had since we left home.