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PVT Thomas Manners Mason, 24, ISS Bdg ([?Lovatt's?]
Commando's) remembers seeing survivors
of the "Svenner" [swimming?] about in water. He
didn't know at the time it was "Svenner."
All he could see was survivors red
lights blinking in water - about 20 or
30. A Sgt beside him sd "Listening
to this on the news will mean
absolutely nothing - yet to each one
of them this is a personal tragedy."

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Landed on LCA about 6:30 at
the center of Ouistreham. He remembers
the piles of dead of the E. [Torks?] - apparently
they didn't get off beach. About 100 dead
& wounded [arrow to continued]

He saw young coxswain flinched,
sat back when he saw these crowds
of dead bodies on beach. Then he
sat up again.

[continued] One man lifted the stump of his
left arm out of the water &
said "Help me - please help me."
Mason pulled him out of water.

"This ain't no exercise" he said to his
Corporal James Harris as they sheltered
in a wrecked villa and had a
smoke while waiting for E troop
to assemble.