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13MAY1958 Extracts QS 1315 MT Tel
27c Havelock Rd Hastings Sussex.
11/5/58.
Box 406, News of the World. E.C.4.
Dear Sir,
Reference your advertisement in the News of the World. I commanded a L.C.S(L). Landing Craft Support (large) during the whole of the landings in Normandy. We were off the beachhead in Juno sector from H-hour - 2 ie 4:30 am 6th of June 1944. Supports the final wave of troops in. If this is of any interest to you I would be very pleased
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(2) to elaborate on this further yours faithfully A Cheesman ex Lieut RNVR
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5th August, 1958
A.B. Cheesman, Esq., 27c, Havelock Road, Hastings, Sussex.
Dear Mr. Cheesman,
I feel that I must personally write to thank you for the wonderful contribution you have made in the preparation of the D-Day book which I am writing.
Your questionnaire was so complete that I did not think it would be necessary to ask you to came to London for interview. The account which you gave was precisely the sort of thing that I was searching for and I feel confident that I will be able to use extracts from this as I am writing the book.
As you must well appreciate, we are dealing with several thousand people, and in the book's final edited form we shall probably be lucky if we can do more than give each participant a few lines. It is the sum total, however, of all these accounts which I hope will give the book its accuracy and unbiased presentation.
I have one more request to make of you. In order to extract some material from your questionnaire, I will need your signature to the attached release. A stamped and addressed envelope is attached for your use.
It may well be a year before the manuscript is published in The Reader's Digest, but at that time we will duly send you a copy of the issue with the story "The Longest Day".
Yours sincerely,
(Cornelius J. Ryan)
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I hereby agree that Mr. Cornelius Ryan has all rights whatsoever in the questionnaire and letter from me regarding D-Day.
SIGNED A. B. Cheesman DATE 7th August 1958.