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THE ASSAULT LANDINGS IN NORMANDY

D DAY: MIDNIGHT JUNE 5 -- MIDNIGHT JUNE 6

What is your full name? RONALD WESTON

What is your present address? CRE Caribbean Area
Up Par k Camp
KINGSTON
JAMAICA BWI

Telephone number: N/A

What was your unit, division, corps? 233 Fd Coy RE, 69 Bde,
50 Northumbrian Division

Where did you land and at what time? St Riverie H+45 mins

What was your rank and age on June 6, 1944? ✓ L/Cpl 26 years

Were you married at that time? Yes

What is your wife's name? Grace Weston

Did you nave any children at that time? No

When did you know that you were going to be part of the invasion?
We knew that we were destined for the Second Front when we
left Sicily in Nov 43 but we did not know details until we were
briefed a few days before we left. we had done a lot of training.

What was the trip like during the crossing of the Channel? Do you
remember, for example, any conversations you had or how you passed the time?
The sea was roughish. It is too long ago to remember any
conversation but we got to know the Marine coxwain of our
LCA who was a Londoner like myself.

Were there any rumours aboard ship? (Some people remember hearing that
the Germans had poured gasoline on the water and planned to set it afire
when the troops came in.) I cant remember any rumours. Normandy was
our second invasion as we had been in on D Day on Sicily. In
factI consider that Sicily was worse than Normandy as in France
the Allies ha d supremecy in the air but not in 1943.

Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
No.