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THE ASSAULT LANDINGS IN NORMANDY

D DAY: MIDNIGHT JUNE 5 — MIDNIGHT JUNE 6

What is your full name? Bernard James Sullivan

What is your present address? 77 Kingsway Pettswood,
Kent

Telephone number: Orpington 30065

What was your unit, division, corps? 553 Assault Flotilla (15 LCAs
carried on S.S. Empire Crossbow.)

Where did you land and at what time? Approx. 6.25 am 6.6.44
Le Hammel

What was your rank and age on June 6, 1944? Lieut. R.N.V.R. Age 24

Were you married at that time? No

What is your wife’s name? Rosabel Jennie (was a "Wren")

Did you have any children at that time? No

When did you know that you were going to be part of the invasion?
I had trained for "D" Days for some 18 months. Know for
certain would be in initial assault some six weeks before.

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?
Dark - roughish. Impressed by the twilight
on 5th June when we were leaving English
coast. Remember that we were confident nothing
could stop up.

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.)
No.

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