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Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day?
FIRST KILLED SERGT JOCK PATTERSON. LIKE
MYSELF, HE WAS DRIVING AN ARMOURED-BULLDOZER, AND THE
L.C.T. HE WAS ABOARD WAS NECK AND NECK WITH OURS.

Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?
JOCK WAS MY FRIEND, HE WAS UPSET BECAUSE HE HAD
LOST THE SIGNET RING HIS GIRL HAD GIVEN HIM.
OUR RESPECTIVE BOATS WERE ABOUT 25yds APART ON
LANDING AT HIGH TIDE. HE WAVED TO ME. IN HIS HAND
WAS A FLAG WHICH HE HAD TO PLANT AT A PRE-ARRANGED SPOT
THAT WAS JOB THAT KILLED HIM. ONCE HE DISMOUNTED
TO RUN UP THE BEACH. HE STOPED ONE. THE NEXT TIME I
SAW HIM WAS 2HRS LATER WITH A
NOTE ON HIS CHEST SAYING HE
HAD BEEN INJECTED WITH MORPHIA.
ONLY THEN DID I FEEL THE IMPACT OF THIS
FANTASTIC OPERATION.

Were you wounded?

How were you wounded?

Do you remember what it was like -- that is, do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even though
it may not have seemed amusing at the time? Or anything unexpected or out-
of-place? YES. A SMOKE SCREEN HAD BEEN LAYED ON
TO PROTECT SOME BIG SHIPS JUST OFFSHORE. SOME OF
OUR CHAPS WERE JUST COMING IN FROM ENGLAND. NOT
KNOW ABOUT THIS SMOKE SCREEN AND ARRIVING AT DUSK
ALL KEYED UP. SOMEBODY STARTED COUGHING. SOMEBODY,
ELSE JOKINGLY SIAD "GAS" BIG PANIC LOOKING FOR MISLAID
GASMASKS. BUT JOHNY WALKER UNIT COMEDIAN COULD NOT
FIND HIS. WAS ADVISED TO MAKE WATER IN
A BLANKET SEVERAL OF THE BOYS HAD TO HELP OUT
POOR JOHNY [inserted] Walker - [illegible] smoke screen [end inserted] HAD THE UNPLEASANT TASK OF HOLDING
THE BLANKET TO HIS FACE. BUT HE SURVIVED.
ANOTHER BLOKE LOST HIS FALSE TEETH, AND HAD A HELL
OF A JOB EATING THE "CONCRETE" BICUITS.
HE GOT THE "M. M." HE DESERVED IT

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, that struck
you more than anything else?