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Bricklayer on the maintenance staff sealed into the US Camps D2 and D4 in Dorset two weeks before D – Day.

‘I queued with the Americans for breakfasts, which included a pint of tomato or fruit juice, a large plate of sweet pancakes with eggs and bacon and a pint of coffee with sugar and carnation milk. We also had the US’ Women’s Voluntary Service calling at the camp. They’d walk around with trays loaded with free cigarettes, glucose tablets, chewing gum, and ring doughnuts, chewing and pipe tobacco. In the Big Tent there were also live shows with US artistes.’