Framed Colour Photograph of D-Day Veteran Richard Atkinson. ...

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Framed Colour Photograph of D-Day Veteran Richard Atkinson. Overall size including frame 76cm x 56cm. This is his story:
On D-Day, we had very little time on the beach. We were in an LST landing craft with the big ramp up. We could hear everything happening around us, but couldn’t see a thing with the ramp up. All of a sudden they opened the doors and dropped the ramp. We came off the ramp and onto the beach and were amazed. The smell of cordite from the rockets and shells from the big guns from the ships was hanging in the air and the noise was unbearable and the number of ships when I looked around, you could have stepped from one ship to another! You couldn’t see for ships! We just wanted to get off the beach and live, but what stuck in my mind was the noise and the smell of death. Death has got a funny smell, you can’t mistake it".

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Very good condition.