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Object description
An incomplete contemporary ms account (pp 1-9 only) of his services as a junior RNVR officer attached to the LSI (Landing Ship Infantry) HMS LLANGIBBY CASTLE on 5 - 6 June 1944 describing the ship's passage across the English Channel to the Normandy beachhead, during which the Canadian troops on board were 'in very good heart', how the eighteen landing craft in the first flight were lowered some seven miles off the French coast on the early morning of D-Day and their initially uneventful voyage towards Juno Beach gave way to the noise of a 'terrific bombardment' by Allied warships and to coming under fire from German positions ashore shortly before the landing craft of which he was in command touched down on the beach and the troops could disembark. The narration ends with an unfinished account of how his landing craft managed to withdraw to several hundred yards off Juno Beach, but in an obviously sinking condition, and is accompanied by a Naval Active Service post card that he sent to his girlfriend in Scotland on 6 June 1944.
Content description
An incomplete contemporary ms account (pp 1-9 only) of his services as a junior RNVR officer attached to the LSI (Landing Ship Infantry) HMS LLANGIBBY CASTLE on 5 - 6 June 1944 describing the ship's passage across the English Channel to the Normandy beachhead, during which the Canadian troops on board were 'in very good heart', how the eighteen landing craft in the first flight were lowered some seven miles off the French coast on the early morning of D-Day and their initially uneventful voyage towards Juno Beach gave way to the noise of a 'terrific bombardment' by Allied warships and to coming under fire from German positions ashore shortly before the landing craft of which he was in command touched down on the beach and the troops could disembark. The narration ends with an unfinished account of how his landing craft managed to withdraw to several hundred yards off Juno Beach, but in an obviously sinking condition, and is accompanied by a Naval Active Service post card that he sent to his girlfriend in Scotland on 6 June 1944.
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Cataloguer RWAS