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THE ASSAULT LANDINGS IN NORMANDY

D DAY: MIDNIGHT JUNE 5 -- MIDNIGHT JUNE 6
Ack 6/6/58

What is your full name? HUBERT VICTOR BURY BAXTER

What is your present address? 51 LOWER JACKWOOD CLOSE
ELTHAM, LONDON S.E.9.

Telephone number:

What was your unit, division, corps?
ANTI-TANK SECTION
1ST BATN. KINGS OWN SCOTTISH
BORDERERS.
9TH BRIGADE 3RD DIVISION

Where did you land and at what time?
HERMANVILLE
EARLY MORNING

What was your rank and age on June 6, 1944?
PRIVATE. 25 years.

Were you married at that time? YES
What is your wife's name?
Did you have any children at that time? YES GIRL 1yr. old.

When did you know that you were going to be part of the invasion?
Not for sure, until we were actually on the Tank Landing Craft.

What was the trip like during the crossing of the Channel? Do you
remember, for example, any conversations you had or how you passed the time?
We were on a Tank Landing Craft, and I remember there
was only a very small cabin, which held about a dozen of the
lads at a time, Myself I spent most of the time laying on one of the
stretchers, which we were carrying on our Carriers. Our section had
Bren Carriers
to tow the
Anti-Tank Guns

Were there any rumours aboard ship? (Some people remember hearing that
the Germans had poured gasoline on the water and planned to set it afire
when the troops came in.)
We had heard this rumour and were most
apprehensive about it, but we were told the
landing would be a complete surprise to the Germans.

Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
No.