Category: Military
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Medal Going Home
…I was left with the impression that the government had regarded the recipients not as individuals but as a homogeneous, expendable mass.
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Aelwyn’s War
“I paused to look out of the window, and saw a line of bullet-holes erupting on the upper side of the wing, heading straight for me.”
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Rhys Jones in the Battle of Normandy
My father’s cousin, Rhys Jones was called up in 1941, and served as a tank driver during the Battle of Normandy, landing on D-Day, June 6th 1944. He set down this account of the war in about 1966, after retiring from running a shop in Llanuwchllyn in Wales.
Ramblings 