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Mr H D Cherrington
564 Rang St Francois
St Therese de Blainville,
Quebec, Canada

Dear Mr Ryan.
Being an employee of Canadair Ltd of
Montreal I read in this months "Canadair News", a message.
from General Dynamics Head office.
It slated that you were interested in contacting any
employees who participated in the Invasion of Normandy
with any unit of the armed forces.
The following is a brief resume of my participation
in that operation.
In June 1944 I was a Sergant Air Bomber (Bombardier)
with 570 Squadron stationed at RAF Station Harwell
England. My crew comprised of a Canadian pilot
three other Englishmen, Navigator, Wireless Operator
and gunner, the aircraft we flew was the Armstrong
Whitworth Albemarle.
The part we played on that day June 6th was to
take a glider loaded with jeep and gun also personnel
to a point beyond the beachhead. We took off from
Harwell at 19.20 and we released the glider at approx
2100 hrs in the designated area, we then returned to base.