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I remember these particular incidents:

1. I always felt we would get ashore without opposition and it
was an unpleasant surprise when first machine gunned in the
landing craft.

2. A party of elderly Frenchmen carrying a wounded civilian on a
mattress down the burning main street of St. Aubin. One, wearing
a gold colored fireman's helmet, took time out to give the "V"
sign and yell, "Vive les Canadiens".

3. A Spitfire supporting the landing flew into a bank of rockets from
the rocket ships and disintegrated in the air.

4. A rifleman moving up in a section looked at his brother lying in
the ditch, where he had been killed a few minutes before. He
marched past without breaking step.