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three sides of the top, they were all along
the beach about 15 ft apart; the ramp dropped
then we went, with the water up to our waist.
Heading for the shore, a sight I shall always
remember, we ran up the beach to the sand
dunes, where we stopped to get the men together.
then all hell let loose as they shelled us with
everything, everywhere men were laying about
killed and wounded, we left the beach, past the sappers
who were clearing for mines, over the road into the
fields and on, as we layed in the hedge we heard
what we thought was a train, I looked up and saw
a ball of flame coming towards us, it past and
exploded in the next field sending its oil and flames
everywhere, we called them the sobbing sisters.
We got to the village and made our way to the place
that we had to take, then we saw it, great concrete bunker
with 88mm guns, one of the Germans held up a white
flag and that was that; they moved out with their heflmets
on their heads, we moved in and stopped a few
[hours ?] in the meantime we were getting shelled and
sniped at, while we were there we found a dugout
full of champagne that was alright, as I needed
it, at last we moved up and all along the roads were
trucks on fire with the dead Germans laying there
as the rocket flames were doing a fine job
blasting the { ?] to hell, we stopped on a hill
and could see the beach, it was full of ships as
men still coming in, the Battleaxe was firing
and we could hear the shells above our heads going
further inland, everywhere was aflame, we sat in
our dugout watching the dog fights as the sky
was full of spitfires and German planes, then
we headed out to sea, and saw a black cloud
coming in, then the [?] noise of planes, as they
were the glider boys coming in, time 7-15 PM
it was a [ ?] sight. the [ ?] cast off the
tow-rope then they glided in past us, then the
flack started at them, some ended up in flames
and fell to the ground, in the meantime they were dropping
the [ ?] parachutes with their [ ? ?] guns.
The battle started once again, with everything the
[ ? ? ?] on the hill till midnight.

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