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British officer served with 551 Landing Craft Flotilla on Omaha Beach during Normandy landings, D-Day, 6/6/1944
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REEL 1 Recollections of operations as officer with 551 Landing Craft Flotilla on Omaha Beach during Normandy landings, D-Day, 6/6/1944: embarking 116th Regt on board landing craft; weather conditions and cancellation of landings, 5/6/1944; sailing for Omaha Beach; landing craft launching procedure; tasks to land A Coy, 116th Regt on Omaha Beach, 6/6/1944; preparations for launching landing craft; behaviour of troops on board; landing craft crew and number of troops carried; damage to landing craft during launching; importance of keeping to time during landings; approach to beach; sinking of landing craft alongside; lack of shelter for troops on Omaha Beach.
REEL 2 Continues: discussion of landing spot with American officer; disembarking troops; reaction to Germans not opening fire; beach obsticles; picking up survivors from sunken landing craft; problems hooking onto LCT; lack of memories of rest of D-Day; reasons for lack of conversation about landings amongst officers; discovery of fate of American officer carried in landing craft; fate of A Coy, 116th Regt landed on Omaha Beach; attitude to participating in D-Day landings; outline of naval career after D-Day.
