Remembering D-day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes

Remembering D-day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes
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Seventy years on, D-Day remains the greatest combined military operation of all time. Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this is a remarkable collection of the stories of those who took part.June 6th 1944 saw the greatest combined military operation of all time and subsequently D-day has become known as the single most crucial watershed of the last century. To commemorate this event, Martin Bowman has compiled a unique collection of personal narratives of those who were part of this extraordinary moment in history.Unique in its treatment, this book includes a range of experiences from civilians as well as all ranks from air, land and naval services reflecting the fact that this was a combined operation and not simply a land invasion as it’s often portrayed. Significantly these fascinating accounts, many sourced from Martin Bowman’s extensive contacts with international veterans associations, have been found from all the major nations that took part on the day to authentically represent the combined accomplishment of services and nations.The book also includes sidebars and information boxes of fascinating factual detail that both anchor the stories to the chronological history of the day and bring the events into pin-point clarity.

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Martin Bowman. Remembering D-day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes

1 Home Front – Second Front

Countdown

Brigadier Tom Collins

US Supply Officer, May 1944

Pilot Officer. R. H. ‘Chad’ Chadwick

Mike Henry DFC

Countdown

Major General Francis de Guingand

Jan Caesar, 15

Bill Goodwin

Private Ken McFarlane

Countdown

Lance Bombardier Frank Scott, 24

WREN Doris Hayball, 23

Allied Nations Represented On D – Day

Lieutenant Abe Dolim

Vera Lynn

‘Neptune’ Factfile

Civilian George Jackson II

Civilian Mrs J. Charlesworth

Nurse Helen Pavlovsky USN

Civilian P. MoElhlnney

WREN Jean Irvine

Countdown

Major Tom Normanton, 27

Phantom Fleets

Ena Howes

BBC 8 a.m. bulletin

New York bulletin

Mary Hoskins, 21

Countdown

Lieutenant General. George S. Patton

Winston Churchill

General Feldmarsohall Erwin Rommel

General Feldmarschall von Rundstedt

Adolf Hitler

General Dwight. D. Eisenhower’s

Ron Mailey

Gunner Alfred Sewell

Panzer Leutnant Günter Halm

Andre Heintz, 23

Civilian June Telford

Countdown

Jean Lancaster-Rennie

Stan Bruce

Lieutenant Ed Wanner

Ben Smith Jr

Countdown

Wilbur Richardson

Harry Barker

Flight Lieutenant Eric ‘Phil’ Phillips DFC MiD

Countdown

Flight Sergeant Roland ‘Ginger’ A. Hammersley DFM

Sergeant Johnny Cook, 19

Franklin L. Betz

RAAF and RNZAF Participation

Flying Officer Kazik Budzik KW VM

Manfred Rommel, 15

D – Day Fact File

2 Screaming Eagles and the All Americans. Bernard M. Job, RAFVR

Extract from ‘Currahee!’ by Donald Burgett, 19

American Paratroopers’ Timetable

Don McKeage

Lieutenant Charles Santarsiero

Paras’ Equipment

Pierre Huet

Frenchman Raymond Paris, 20

Private Ken Russell

Chief-corporal Rudolph May

2nd Lieutenant Leon E. Mendel

George Rosie

3 Winged Pegasus. Brigadier S. J. L. Hill

Major General Richard Gale

Brigadier Nigel Poett

Sergeant Edgar Gurney BEM

Red Devils’ Timeline

Order Of Battle

Charles Pearson

Albert Gregory, RAMC

Helmut Romer and Erwin Sauer, both 18

Sergeant Charles Thornton, 27

Sapper Cyril Larkin

First Lieutenant Richard Todd, 23

Chester Wilmot

Merville – The Red Devils’ Greatest Triumph ‘Whoever occupies this field will hold the key to the gateway of France and eventually into Germany itself.’

‘The Hun thinks that only a bloody fool will go there. That’s why we’re going.’

Lieutenant Colonel Otway’s short and sharp official report

Sergeant Percy Reeve

Private Alan Mower

Sniper John Walker

Sergeant Charles Thornton

Sapper Cyril Larkin

4 Bloody Omaha. Franz Rachmann

Flight Lieutenant R. H. G. Weighill,

Lieutenant Commander Joseph H. Gibbons

James Roland Argo

Ben Isgrig

Leading Stoker Henry ‘Buck’ Taylor

US Assault Divisions Omaha Beach

Beach Timetable

US Rangers Assault Pointe-du-Hoc and Pointe de la Percée

Ray Aim, B Company

Ranger Alban Meccia

Sergeant Leonard Lomell

Ben Smith Jr

Tom Bradley

Wilbur Richardson

Henry Tarcza

Private Lee Ratel, 18

Diary entry Lieutenant Abe Dolim

Wing Commander ‘Johnnie’ Johnson DSO, DFC

New Zealand Flight Lieutenant John Houlton

Account by the US War Department’s Historical Division of the 1st Battalion, II6th Regiment

Sergeant John R. Slaughter

Lucille Hoback Boggess

Private Roy Stevens

Sub-lieutenant. George ‘Jimmy’ Green RNVR

Sergeant Thomas Valence

Brigadier General Norman ‘Dutch’ Cota, 51

First Lieutenant P. Clough

Mate Frank R. Feduik, 19

Madelaine Hardy, 15

Lenny Hickman

Reg Lilley

Waverly Woodson, 21

Official report, I6th Infantry

Chaplain Burkhalter’s

5 Utah. Franz Goekel

Log book entries. Flight Lieutenant Tony Cooper

Claude V. Meconis

Allen W. Stephens

US Assault Divisions Utah Beach

Beach Timetable

Lieutenant Robert A. Jacobs

Bob Shaffer

Allan Healy

Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., 57

Carter Barber, American

Jack Culshaw

6 Sword. John Gough,

Beach Timetable

Les ‘Tubby’ Edwards

Mission diary. Ed ‘Cotton’ Appleman

Gunner Len Woods,

Hobart’s Funnies

J. A. C. Hugill

The ‘Jocks’ And The Green Berets Forge Inland. Piper Bill Millin, 21

Bill Mills

Extract from the LSI(H) ‘Maid of Orleans’ ship’s log

Private Bill Bidmead, 20

Piper Bill Millin

Sapper Cyril Larkin

Sergeant Charles Thornton

Private Bill Bidmead

Piper Bill Millin

Order Of Battle Sword Beach. 3rd British Division

Lieutenant John Avis, 27

K. D. Budgen

Private Edward ‘Teddy’ W. D. Beeton, 21

Corporal Walter William Oliver

Platoon Sergeant. Albert Pattison

Captain Douglas Munroe

Trooper ‘Slim’ Wileman, 24

Private Geoffrey Duncan

Troop Sergeant Chris Clancy

Prudent Boiux, 16

Lance Corporal Peter H. Gould

Major Eric A. Cooper-Key MC

Private Nevil Griffin

Private W. Evans

Lieutenant E. G. G. Williams

Stan Bruce

Marine Commando Percy ‘Shock’ Kendrick MM

John McLaughlin

Private T. Platt

Leutnant Herbert Walther, 22

Private Ronald Major, 21

7 Gold. Walt Marshall, 20

Franklin L. Betz

Lieutenant Jim Tuffell

Gold Beach Timetable

Unnamed officer in the Dorsets

Citation, CSM Stan Hollis, Green Howards

Lieutenant Irwin

Ken Mayo

Sergeant Robert ‘Bob’ E. Palmer MM

Major Peter Selerie

Lieutenant H. Foster

Ronald Scott, 20

Leutnant Wolfgang Fischer

Lieutenant John Milton

Lieutenant Basil Heaton

Eric Broadhead

Wing Commander A. H. D. Livock

Private Ken McFarlane

Private Reginald ‘Punch’ Burge

QM Sergeant Robert Fitzgerald

Major R. J. L. Jackson

Private Reg Shickle

Private Dennis Bowen, 18

Bill Davey, 19

Order of Battle Gold Beach

8 Juno. E. J. Thompson

Lieutenant Roy Clark, 33

Sergeant Leo Gariepy

Jim Gadd

Juno Beach Timetable

Malcolm Cook, 19

Unnamed Canadian Officer

Mike Crooks

Order of Battle Juno Beach

Lieutenant Brian Lingwood

R. S. Haig – Brown, 22

Reverend R. M. Hickey

Private Jim Wilkins

A. W. Sadler

Sam Earl

Unnamed Canadian Officer

9 A Foothold On The Continent Of Europe. Winston Churchill

USN Nurse Helen Pavlovsky

Sara Marcum

Marjorie Jefferson, 19

Patricia Gent

Lieutenant Eugene Fletcher

Les Barber

Elizabeth Hillmann

Sapper Harold Merritt

Orv Iverson

Flight Sergeant Roland ‘Ginger’ A. Hammersley DFM

Lieutenant Abel L. Dolim

Les Bulmer

British Mulberry Harbour Project

Seaman G. E. Jacques

Fellow Officer recalling a conversation with Lieutenant Denis J. M. Glover DSC

Antonia Hunt, 14

Mike Henry DFC

Bill Stafford,

The Beachhead Is Won

Pharmacist Mate. Frank R. Feduik, 19

S.S Leutnant Herbert Walther, 22

Stan Bruce

S. Davies

Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt

General Montgomery

PLUTO

Extract from ‘Behind The Lines in Normandy’ by Lieutenant Commander R. D. Franks DSO

A. B. Lol Buxton

Jack Woods

Normandy by Cyril Crain

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Memorial stained glass window in Portsmouth Cathedral.

Nations represented in the stained glass window in Portsmouth Cathedral.

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An Army Field Kitchen Unit is driven onto LST 506 of Force B that loaded at Falmouth and Plymouth and arrived in the Western Task Force area on 6/7 June.

National Archives

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