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4th AGRA Signals, in a holding battalion in Kent.

‘On the morning of 6 June we heard o the radio that a large force of both our troops and the Americans had succssfully landed on the beaches near Caen and Bayeux and also further down the coast towards Cherbourg. This was very good news and we felt that it would make up for the defeat in 1940 in which I had taken part. Immediately our own Battalion was mobilized, and we departed for Southampton. In hindsight, Hitler was our greatest ally. He made the mistake of thinkin our attack was a diversionary one and that the main attack was to come in the Pas-de-Calais area. It was a mistake he repeated many times in the war and, perhaps, had he left it to his generals, we may have lost, instead of won.’