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THE ASSAULT LANDINGS IN NORMANDY
D DAY: MIDNIGHT JUNE 5 ~ MIDNIGHT JUNE 6
[in margins] Should have [letter?] from CR
reg: thank you
ack 2/6/58
Telephone [/marginalia]
What is your full name? Major General Sir Farndale Phillips
What is your present address?
The Old Vicarage
Northorpe
Gainsbrorough
Lincolnshire
Telephone number:
[Scotter?] 218
What was your unit, division, corps?
47 (Royal Marine) Commando
Where did you land and at what time?
Near Le Hamel
About H + 100 [minutes?]
What was your rank and age on June 6, 1944?
Lt. Col 39
Were you married at that time?
[Yes?]
What is your wife's name?
[checkmark]
Did you have any children at that time?
[checkmark]
When did you know that you were going to be part of the invasion?
Some months before hand
What was the trip like during the crossing of the Channel? Do you
remember, for example, any conversations you had or how you passed the time?
Good Yes
Were there any rumours aboard ship? (Some people remember hearing that
the Germans had poured gasoline on the water and planned to set it arire
when the troops came in.)
No
Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
Yes
Notes and Questions
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I am coming across quite a few transcriptions in this collection that are just random letters/symbols/numbers. Some of them have some of the document transcribed correctly but with random errors sprinkled throughout so I am better off just erasing the existing transcription and starting over. Not sure why this would be happening.
Hi jmphillips, thanks for contributing to the project! The errors and random characters in starting transcripts are the result of computer text recognition. All of the documents undergo this process before being uploaded. The software we use does a decent job identifying typed characters, however errors are likely and handwritten text cannot be accurately transcribed. Sometimes these errors can be corrected by editing the original transcript. In other cases it makes more sense to start from scratch as you suggested.