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Leading Aircraftsman John Murphy from Belfast, hit Juno beach at 0640 on D-Day.
Later in the day pioneers collected all the dead bodies to put them in a
mass grave but a padre with the Canadian "Regina Rifles” stopped it;
he insisted on the bodies being buried separately.
The first two men out of the boat (Canadians) were killed - one by standing
on a mine, the other by a rifle bullet.
He wondered during an air raid that night whether his balloons would bring
anything down.
One-eyed Airman, Arthur Tipton ( see questionnaire re bombing) was dug out
of a slit trench which had caved in by bomb blast. When they finally
dug down they found him calmly smoking cigarettes. "Harry, he said to
Corporal Harry Barnes, ’’took you a long time to get down here”.