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THE ASSAULT LANDINGS IN NORMANDY

D DAY: MIDNIGHT JUNE 5 — MIDNIGHT JUNE 6

Ack 6/5
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What is your full name? GORDON CAMPBELL WILSON

What is your present address? MORETON HOUSE, MORTON, ESSEX

Telephone number: MORETON 222

What was your unit, division, corps? 47 (R.M.) COMMANDO

Where did you land and at what time?
Le Hamel About 11:10 am

What was your rank and age on June 6, 1944?
2nd Lt. - 19

Were you married at that time? No

What is your wife’s name? —

Did you have any children at that time? —

When did you know that you were going to be part of the invasion? [illegible] about
Jan 1944. Finally about April 1944

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 spent most of the night drinking neat
gin in the Doctor's cabin of our L.S.I.
We talked a little about dying.

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.