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British seaman served aboard Minesweeper 288, 132nd Minesweeper Flotilla, off Normandy, France, 6/1944-8/1944
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REEL 1 Recollections of operations as seaman aboard Minesweeper 288, 132nd Minesweeper Flotilla off Normandy, France, 6/1944-8/1944: minesweeping off Cherbourg Peninsula; weather conditions; personal morale; insignia worn; ship's armament; contact with Americans; degree of awareness of situation during Operation Neptune; question of security leaks; booby traps at Cherbourg; question to visiting Normandy; attitude towards Second World War; story of being in convoy to Far East on VE Day, 8/5/1945; minesweeping off Cherbourg Peninsula; size of crew; commissioning of minesweeper in Southampton, 1944; participation in Operation Tiger, 4/1944; shore leave prior to D-Day; types of mines dealt with; attitude towards minesweeping; lack of mail on return to Portsmouth.
