When we were still half a mile or more from the coast, the Germans began to fire at us. We could hear bullets whizzing past the side of the boat. At the foot of the cliffs, it can be said that there is no beach at all. It's all reefs. The landing craft was as close to the shore as possible, the sailors lowered the landing board, and we jumped into the water. ”

"Jumping off the landing craft, we fired some iron claw spears with ropes attached to them and shot them at the top of the cliff. After that, we started to climb up quickly. We know what we have to do.

We know very well that if we stay down and can't move forward, we're going to be beaten to a pulp. We struggled to climb, and German soldiers threw grenades at us and shot. At that time, bullets were coming from three sides - from the left, from the right, from the center. I was the one in the bow of our boat who grabbed a rope and climbed to the top of a cliff.

I stayed at the top of the cliff for about 5 to 10 minutes. I search for enemies on it. You can't look around when climbing. You can only hold the thick rope in your hand, and your hand moves again and again. You'll want to carry 2,040 to 50 kilograms of luggage, rifles, pistols and bullets. But strangely, I didn't care about that, and it seemed like I didn't try much to climb up. ”

"The first 20 feet are really hard to climb. You don't have a place to hold onto. The only thing you can hold on to is the rope. As you approach the top of the cliff, you can finally take it a little easier. As soon as you see a head peeking out from the top of the cliff, you have to put your face against the cliff immediately.

Otherwise, there will be a flurry of shots. I remember looking down from the top of a cliff and seeing one of us lying wounded on the beach. Then. I was thinking, 'Oh God, maybe I'll be like that.'" If I want to do the same, maybe I won't be able to live. ”

"When I climbed to the top of the cliff, it was like I was in heaven. There was not a single person on it, only craters. I looked down. The guys below are all scrambling to climb up. A few more people were hit by stray bullets and fell. The beach was littered with dead bodies.

In the distance, black destroyers and landing craft crowded the two-mile strip of beach like sardines. Further away are the big guys - gunboats and cruisers. I could hear the sound of naval artillery rumbling like thunder. Like rabbits, we find one hole from one hole to another.

We finally realized that they had moved their guns to a place half a mile away. Under the shelling of the Navy, the Germans all ran away. It's a real disappointment. Where the hell are they hiding? We searched there for an hour, but we didn't find a single shadow of the enemy. It was as if 100 years had passed.

Such. We searched the shore for a whole day. We searched everywhere that morning. Blew up the enemy's guns that were found. I would say that this is the most tricky and annoying thing I have ever experienced. None of you have ever had that experience. Whenever I think of the death of the living one by one, I am so depressed that my heart is so miserable.

But. Our offense was effective. We finally found the guns that were still usable. Our mission is to blow them up. That's how they were blown up by us. A day later. We were captured in a woods by the counterattacking Germans. ”

John? Howard (81 years old) at the time. The British major, who was part of the British 6th Airborne Division, commanded his troops in the Battle of Pegassers. In this battle, he commanded 150 British officers and soldiers to guard two important bridges near Benuville, on the Orne River and on the Orne Canal.

It was a not-so-long period of time at midnight on June 6. This was the first group of troops in the Allied forces to JF French territory. The battle is going well. Today. He lives in the south of England. Every year, he spent a month in Normandy, France, to the battlefield of the fierce battles of that year, to pay tribute to his fallen comrades.

"There were two things on this day that I will never forget. The first was to give the order to six gliders to go. I came to each glider and said goodbye to them. When I also took the glider to the sky, I felt the lymph in my throat getting bigger and bigger. It seems that we are flying in the air. I really don't know how many lads will still be alive when we're in the thick of the battle an hour later.

The other thing is landing. As I had hoped, the glider I was flying on was the first to land. I ordered the first platoon to move forward immediately, as they were tasked with blowing up the pillboxes. We analyzed in advance that the bunker located on the river beach next to the bridge must have contained a device to detonate the two bridges. I ordered them to make sure the bridge was intact. ”

"When I jumped out of the scattered glider, the first thing I saw from 50 yards away was the bridgehead that we had been studying for months with aerial photographs. The pilot made the glider land very close to there! There were no gunshots there, it was quiet. The steel doors of the pillboxes were not locked. A couple of lads pulled out the lube hose and poured oil on the door shaft.

Then we slipped in. In the bunker, we caught only one German veteran who had not yet had time to put on his pants. We landed at 12:16 p.m. Within 15 minutes, we signaled to HQ that we had the code name 'Ham and Jaime' – we had taken control of the bridge. Our plan of action is like a dream.

There is no doubt that the accurate actions of D-Day were due to luck and the soldiers of the elite divisions of the British army. As you can imagine, each of our tasks was successfully accomplished. This is thanks to aerial photographs and intelligence from the French Resistance. ”

"We engaged in a fierce battle with more than 50 German troops near the bridge over the Orne Canal. Most of them lived in requisitioned houses, and they were sleepy-eyed when they rushed out. Deng? The first platoon, led by Lieutenant Braridge, launched an attack on the canal bridge. He was about to rush to the bridge when he was shot in the neck and fell.

He was the first Allied soldier to die on D-Day, and the only one to die in that operation, even though we were wounded quite a lot. We finally took control of the canal bridge. In the same way, we have occupied another bridge across the great river. ”

"We speculate that the enemy will launch a counteroffensive to reclaim the canal. And we have to hold on to it. We are lucky. The first shell fired by our anti-tank guns destroyed a German tank. It crackled and burned like fireworks.

So, I ordered my men to open heavy fire to give the enemy the illusion that we were strong. I know that our paratrooper reinforcements will also be here in an hour at the earliest. The Germans retreated. Our paratroopers arrived at the canal at 3 a.m. As soon as they jumped from the bridge, they went into battle and attacked the enemy. This is how we fought with the enemy that night. (To be continued......)

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