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Object description
A ms letter (6pp, plus active service army privilege envelope, 8 July 1944) from a Lance Corporal in 176th Workshop and Park Company, Royal Engineers, to Ben and Celia Wells in Lincoln, who he had met in Lincoln just after Dunkirk when Ben was working at Waddington Aerodrome and Celia drove a WVS canteen van, giving details of his experiences of D-Day (6 June 1944), being back in Normandy "to help to finish the job that we failed to do in the dark days of 1940", witnessing the first wave of landing craft going in and landing on the beach, the planes overhead, the shelling, and the bravery of the soldiers and sappers that went in as though "going into a rainstorm, and that the chunks of metal, and bullets that were flying around were the raindrops", his gratefulness that they fought for the beachhead, and the rest of the letter talking about acquaintances and the Wells's daughter, Elizabeth, and that he had been tee total and a non-smoker for six weeks due to lack of availability.
Content description
A ms letter (6pp, plus active service army privilege envelope, 8 July 1944) from a Lance Corporal in 176th Workshop and Park Company, Royal Engineers, to Ben and Celia Wells in Lincoln, who he had met in Lincoln just after Dunkirk when Ben was working at Waddington Aerodrome and Celia drove a WVS canteen van, giving details of his experiences of D-Day (6 June 1944), being back in Normandy "to help to finish the job that we failed to do in the dark days of 1940", witnessing the first wave of landing craft going in and landing on the beach, the planes overhead, the shelling, and the bravery of the soldiers and sappers that went in as though "going into a rainstorm, and that the chunks of metal, and bullets that were flying around were the raindrops", his gratefulness that they fought for the beachhead, and the rest of the letter talking about acquaintances and the Wells's daughter, Elizabeth, and that he had been tee total and a non-smoker for six weeks due to lack of availability.
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