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TRIP ACROSS (on plane)
We had been told that the enemy anti-aircraft batteries
would [crossed out] [illegible] [end crossed out] been knocked out before the troop carrying
planes arrived. I got the first shock of the thing when
we hit the coast & the plane rolled & shook so much that some
of us were thrown to the floor. I remember wondering if the rest
of the information was as accurate as this.
When we approached the D-2, the plane throttled down
& the men prepared to leave. I was in a plane with most of
headquarters Company, since I was a medical corporal, the
doctor- [now Dr. Colin Brebner of Kirkland Lake Ont] & the
[inserted] Dave written to him [end inserted]
medical sergeant, Dan Wright [of Br. Columbia] were with me
I was no. 19, and Sgt. Wright no. 20. in a plane of 20.
Something happened as we approached the D-2 and only
18 men got out and Dan Wright and myself had to sit down
again, quite a let down after you are Keyed up to a situation.
We thought perhaps we were going back to England & I remember
[crossed out] feeling [end crossed out] having a great feeling of dissappointment that I had come all this
way & now would be going back. However the plane may a second run on the D-2 & the two of us bailed out. Here is
the curious fact that of the two men in that plane only
Dan Wright and myself ever reached our objective. The other
18 were either killed, wounded, or captured. Dr. Brebner
had some very interesting experiences, in which he told me about
later when I met him in England after we returned from the
continent in Sept 1944. He was injured in the drop and taken
by the [crossed out] Que [end crossed out] French underground, and later captured by the Germans.

TRIP ACROSS (on plane)
We had been told that the enemy anti-aircraft batteries
would [crossed out] [illegible] [end crossed out] been knocked out before the troop carrying
planes arrived. I got the first shock of the thing when
we hit the coast & the plane rolled & shook so much that some
of us were thrown to the floor. I remember wondering if the rest
of the information was as accurate as this.
When we approached the D-2, the plane throttled down
& the men prepared to leave. I was in a plane with most of
headquarters Company, since I was a medical corporal, the
doctor- [now Dr. Colin Brebner of Kirkland Lake Ont] & the
[inserted] Dave written to him [end inserted]
medical sergeant, Dan Wright [of Br. Columbia] were with me
I was no. 19, and Sgt. Wright no. 20. in a plane of 20.
Something happened as we approached the D-2 and only
18 men got out and Dan Wright and myself had to sit down
again, quite a let down after you are Keyed up to a situation.
We thought perhaps we were going back to England & I remember
[crossed out] feeling [end crossed out] having a great feeling of dissappointment that I had come all this
way & now would be going back. However the plane may a second run on the D-2 & the two of us bailed out. Here is
the curious fact that of the two men in that plane only
Dan Wright and myself ever reached our objective. The other
18 were either killed, wounded, or captured. Dr. Brebner
had some very interesting experiences, in which he told me about
later when I met him in England after we returned from the
continent in Sept 1944. He was injured in the drop and taken
by the [crossed out] Que [end crossed out] French underground, and later captured by the Germans.