D-Day Landings
Sir,—The first British troops to land on D-Day were paratroops who started the invasion from D-l at 1900 hours, followed in on D-Day itself by the 50th Northumbrian Division and the 2nd Armoured Brigade ot the 7th Armoured Division. From the cinema advertisements it seems the film is about American troops who invaded the Cherbourg area and peninsula. With all due respect to them I would like to point out that the 7th Armoured Division were the original “Desert Rats’’ who went through the Western Desert campaign., fought their way across Africa, took part in the invasion of Sicily and Italy (Salerno landings), and were brought home to England for the Normandy invasion and fought across France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Of all Montgomery's divisions, the 7th Armoured served ham the longest and our divisional flash was the jerboa (desert rat). I am proud to have been a member of this division from its formation in the Western Desert.—Yours, etc., W. TURNER. July 22. 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 3
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