It is a fine scene on the river here; the town and harbour on one side; on the other, scattered grey stone...
The troops would be able to step ashore directly onto dry land and only a few yards from the islands road...
I only stayed with the Houstons for about a year as, in late 1941, my Mother sent for me to join her...
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My uncle Joe and his son, also called Joe, had visited us from America in the summer of 1938 or 1939... It...
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The pier was really just a short ,ramshackle jetty ,but it was home to us and G6 ,which lay alongside.It...
There were about 12 L.C.T. of the British Navy, each with an R.N.V.R. or R.N.R. Lieutenant in charge....
When boarding a bus about to head off to Brightons I noticed a military motor-cyclist heading west and...
When I went to London - I arrived at night and went straight to my Naffi as one of my friends had...
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He suggested that Stan went along with his brother in law, yet another Smith at Langford Hall, and with Reg...
After France capitulated on 17 June 1940 a group from the Division went towards South Loire and on to...
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We were fighting the Germans all the time and then I was sent onboard the HMS Wolf as part of the Northern...
A number of London tailors had taken over a parade of shops and it was here that we spent the grant we...
it was there that i saw the first G.I.american soldiers to in this country 1000,s of them all lined up by...
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