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off in 6 ft of water this is were the 27th armored
division men were killed apart from this all the
tanks landed safety then our job was to get
off the beach back to Britain + Load more
troops and supplies - off this we did we
loaded with american troops + supplies and landed
again at the same sector this second time there
was several dead troops floating in the water
near the beach and the bodies were all puffed +
bloated this had been done by the germans and
on the bodies had been places small mines and
several craft had been blown up by this method
naval personel had tried to recover the bodies
and when they had pulled them inboard they
had set the mines off blowing up part of the
craft and in most cases sinking fortunate for
us we had recieved a signal to this effect and
we steered clear of the bodies there also was
several mines floating on the water and every now
and then there was an explosion and another craft
had had it several of these floated near us
but never touched us we were very lucky in
more ways than one with our success we carried
troops and supplies accross the channel for 10 days
non stop without a break and we did not even
scratch out paint work please excuse spelling as
I am writing this very quickly this is the most I
can remember of the D day landing
yours truly
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