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2.

Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day?
I had two in my section killed by mortar fire on the first day.

Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?
No

Were you wounded? Yes

How were you wounded? I was shot in the face while
helping to clear a wood just outside
CAMBS, a small village, the Battalion Casualties
were very heavy there.

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?
I certainly remember what it was like
The bullet entered my face just below the
left eye passed by the back of my nostrils and
lodged in my Right Upper jaw, All I remember
was that it felt like being hit with a hammer
a gush of blood from my mouth and then
Blackness till I came to in the middle of a tank Battle

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that semms funny now, even though
it may not have seemed amusing at the time? Or anything unexpected or out-
of-place?
When we landed we had folding cycles on our Backs and it was our job to get to
[illegible] the same night. We all had plenty of
self heating tins of Soup. After a couple of hrs
we were engaged and when it was over we
went back for our Cycles only to find a tank
had gone over the lot.

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, that struck
you more than anything else?
Im afraid there were no hero's in my
plattoon myself included.