and he's one of them. and it's so important to keep this history really, really... you know, it's important for kids and for everybody to know about the history. on d—day, as the allied invasion of northern france began, ralph was the signaller on board one of these — a landing craft tank. this is the last surviving lct as they were known. it sits outside the d—day story museum in portsmouth. ralph has a vivid memory of climbing down from the bridge when he heard the metallic pinging sound of german snipers' bullets hitting the metal of the craft around him. i was going down, you could hear "ping, ping, ping." i thought... "they're after me, them snipers!" and they got german snipers in the houses, in the houses there, so i dropped and threw myself into where the. . .where