BBCNEWS HARDtalk October 5, 2021 03:34:00
I enlisted wherever i could get into the army, and i was a buck private, the lowest rain you can get, assigned to be in the artillery battalion. in that capacity, we landed on the beaches of normandy. france was occupied by the germans. the only to move the war forward, to get rid of the war was to defeat the germans. i sailed from lands end, the tip of england, across to omaha beach, which was still, er, had been cleared by the time i got there a bit, but there were many soldiers in american uniforms still lying in the sea, face down. there were many armoured vehicle still in the water, and w...