Marine RM Landing Craft 812 Flotilla landed D Day Gold Beach 6t” guns firing overhead deafening, vivid description of shuttling troops ashore, offers from ship to ship for cocktail parties, body bags on beach, casualty handling harrowing, uncertainty of approaching beach. Medical people very good.

Tony Gibbons

Tony Gibbons joined the Royal Marines in 1942. He provides som excellent detail about the role of his Landing Craft during the Normandy campaign.

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