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Ex
Interview

THE ASSAULT LANDINGS IN NORMANDY

D DAY: MIDNIGHT JUNE 5 — MIDNIGHT JUNE 6

[illegible]
acknowledged
9.6.58

What is your full name?
Norman Scarfe

What is your present address?
2 Lancaster Road Leicester during university term.
Shingle Street, Hollesley, Woodbridge, Suffolk in vacation

Telephone number: Leicester: [illegible] 2738
Shingle Street: Bawdsey (Suffolk) 224.

What was your unit, division, corps?
76th (Highland) Field Regt., R.A., 3 Br. Inf. Div., 1 Corps.

Where did you land and at what time?
Queen [inserted] White [end inserted] Beach at about 8.30 am

What was your rank and age on June 6, 1944?
Lieutenant, R.A. 21

Were you married at that time? No

What is your wife's name? -

Did you have any children at that time? -

When did you know that you were going to be part of the invasion ?
1 September 1943

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?
Uncomfortable. See Assault Division. Our guns
were self-propelled i.e. mounted on [illegible] chassis, and
gunners and tank - drivers alike were full of wry, good [?humour?]
especially at the outset at midday on 5 June. They naturally grew quieter!

Were there any rumours aboard ship? (Some people remember hearing that
the Germans had poured gasoline on the water and planned to set it afire
when the troops came in.)
I don't remember any. It was an LCT mark IV - holding only one troop.

Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
No, but I have a certain amount of correspondence
e.g. from the skipper of the LCT that set my ashore:
much censored!