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One of the best halfdozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign Richard Holmes
Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 645 am Sunday 4 June 1944 He was 20 years old unblooded fresh from a publicschool background and Officer Cadet training He was going to war Two days later his tank sunk he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they stood in After that the struggles through the Normandy bocage in a replacement tank of the nonswimming variety engaging the enemy in a constant round of close encounters led to a swift mastering of the art of tank warfare and remarkable survival in the midst of carnage and destruction His story of that journey through hell to victory makes for compulsive reading
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