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Leading seaman === where unloading tanks
flew over crew about 5 or 6 x.
broken thigh infection broken arm-
[?conscious] ---- had [?bar] [?]
[?] and chanell- [?D] it over
side===

? of ? ? up below
saw us ? down below. this after
on only when ? ? ?
Talk of operating --- pleased to he
was going back --- was dangerously ill.
Supposed to be first casualty.
? sea from beach ---
Pioneer corps men - boots waiting for
him ----- biggest reception -

About midnight [?] my head down ----
Amazed it was so easy -----

Tanks [?]worried on shore. [?dude] wants
"this better than last --"
Saw ? bank -----

Saw "ceiling of American flares "very high
? ? on book over - -

landed new vehicles ?
across beach & them yelling move on ---
Beach ? ? ? ? -----

"real picnic" on first day -----
went back to England to ? up
reinforcements for American beach