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Object description
Wordprocessed memoir entitled 'The Involvement of 953 Inland Water Transport Company, Type 'C', Royal Engineers in the Landing on D-Day 6 June 1944 at Jig Green, King Red Beaches, Ver sur Mer Normandy' (6pp, written April 2010), and 'Sapper Lightermen, Rhino Ferries and Landing Ships' (8pp), with details of the ferry vessels used to unload LSTs, including Rhino Ferries, leaving his job as a Staff Captain at the War Office to join No 3 IWT Group (February 1944), with details of the Workshop Companies and Operating Companies that made up the group, planning and training, being in charge of the 24 Rhinos on Gold beach, details of the journeys, the D-Day landings (6 June 1944) and the subsequent unloading, care of the wounded, the differences between British and American ships, damage caused by storms, and also includes: a photocopy of a newspaper article by Hunt (1p, n.d.) about Thames barges being made to look like invasion barges; photocopies of Ferry Craft Orders (3pp, May 1944); scanned copies of photographs of Rhino Ferries and the Normandy Landings; photocopies of special messages from Montgomery and Eisenhower; and articles about TID Tugs from a number of sources. Together with: an account entitled 'The Record Breaking Bailey Bridge Across the Maas at Gennep' (3pp, written December 2012) about the need to build a vast bridge using pontoons and Bailey Bridges to cross the flooded river Maas; a photocopy of a report by the Dutch Engineer Lt Constant Lambrechtsen, Second Army, about the construction of the bridge (2pp, n.d.); scanned copies of photographs showing sideways oblique views of the bridge taken from a Spitfire; photocopies of sketch maps of the area; and a photocopy of a Dutch proclamation relating to the liberation of the Netherlands (in Dutch) decorated with pictures of the formation badges of units from 21st Army Group, with an attached explanatory note (2pp).
Content description
Wordprocessed memoir entitled 'The Involvement of 953 Inland Water Transport Company, Type 'C', Royal Engineers in the Landing on D-Day 6 June 1944 at Jig Green, King Red Beaches, Ver sur Mer Normandy' (6pp, written April 2010), and 'Sapper Lightermen, Rhino Ferries and Landing Ships' (8pp), with details of the ferry vessels used to unload LSTs, including Rhino Ferries, leaving his job as a Staff Captain at the War Office to join No 3 IWT Group (February 1944), with details of the Workshop Companies and Operating Companies that made up the group, planning and training, being in charge of the 24 Rhinos on Gold beach, details of the journeys, the D-Day landings (6 June 1944) and the subsequent unloading, care of the wounded, the differences between British and American ships, damage caused by storms, and also includes: a photocopy of a newspaper article by Hunt (1p, n.d.) about Thames barges being made to look like invasion barges; photocopies of Ferry Craft Orders (3pp, May 1944); scanned copies of photographs of Rhino Ferries and the Normandy Landings; photocopies of special messages from Montgomery and Eisenhower; and articles about TID Tugs from a number of sources. Together with: an account entitled 'The Record Breaking Bailey Bridge Across the Maas at Gennep' (3pp, written December 2012) about the need to build a vast bridge using pontoons and Bailey Bridges to cross the flooded river Maas; a photocopy of a report by the Dutch Engineer Lt Constant Lambrechtsen, Second Army, about the construction of the bridge (2pp, n.d.); scanned copies of photographs showing sideways oblique views of the bridge taken from a Spitfire; photocopies of sketch maps of the area; and a photocopy of a Dutch proclamation relating to the liberation of the Netherlands (in Dutch) decorated with pictures of the formation badges of units from 21st Army Group, with an attached explanatory note (2pp).
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