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"I was sent out to just check on lines. And this covering of artillery shells of all sizes going over, made for a very eerie and disquieting, but comforting, sound"

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"It was quite traumatic, to change from being up in the air force flying every day to getting up in the morning, and from seeing everybody in a blue uniform, and all of a sudden, you’re into a civilian dress."

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"I participated in some of the now-famous battles – the Battle of Normandy, the Falaise Gap, the Scheldt, the Battle of the Rhineland and the crossing of the Rhine River…"

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"We were a casualty clearing station on D Day. So we had boys back from the battlefield the same day."

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"We were probably ten miles or more out of Rotterdam and we just loaded up and went towards Rotterdam. And then we met the Germans coming the other way. And we weren’t supposed to greet them too much because they were our enemy but they were just people like everybody else I guess."

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"And of course, I was all ready for him, I said, first of March 1924. Well, he said, he figured that out and he said, okay, you’re 17, so you’re okay."

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"You just do what you were told and don’t ask any questions"

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"They hit the Wellington Barracks chapel right on and most of them were killed. I think the band was killed and, of course, if I hadn’t been disobedient, I would have been there."

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"Those aircraft with 12, either 12,000 or 16,000lb of bombs they were carrying; 2,154 gallons of high octane fuel. When they got hit, it was all over right now, you know. That's something, I guess, that you kept in the back of your mind."

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"We had some tough battles but nothing like Carpiquet. We had our first rest period after 39 days."

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"I went my own road, I didn’t follow the herd. And then I ran into the Americans. I stayed with the Americans to the end of the war."

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"The carnage, the wreckage, the stench, the dead bodies, human and animal: it was unreal."

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"Three days after D-Day, I became a prisoner of war. There was about eight of us got nailed."

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"I particularly remember the horror of the first pictures of the infamous Nazi Concentration Camp at Bergen-Belsen."

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"We had 3 units in our Commando of 28 men each. And we trained purposely for Operation Overlord."

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"Well, not bragging, but we were better cooks because we had the quality food. I said it was quality food made us better cooks."

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"And when he used the torch to try and burn off the hinges or whatever, it blew and blew him right clean out of the tank."

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"So we got out of there and arrived at Stalag III. Now, that was a real Sunday school compared with Buchenwald."

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"You just automatically went to your boat station to find out what was going to happen next, so then when the abandon ship order came through, well, we got into our lifeboat."

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"And then you got blasé about it. I used to stay in bed until a bomb dropped near and then of course, I’d shoot out like mad."

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