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Originally Posted by Pea-Pod
What they went through, especially the first wave attack on D-Day must have been harrowing to say the least. Their comrades around them dropping like flies, you cannot begin to wonder just how much you owe to those brave soldiers of the 2nd World War.
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I hope that by soldiers you also mean sailors, airmen and civilians who all played a vital part in what happened that day.
My father was in the Royal Navy and was on one of the first Landing Craft Tanks that went in on D Day. He had prevously been in a similar position on 10th July 1943 when the Allies invaded Sicily. At Sicily he landed at the exact time that I was born.
One of my uncles was also in the Royal Navy, being one of the few survivors when his ship, HMS Wakeful, went down during the allied evacuation in 1940 with great loss of life after being torpedoed.