Sergeant Bernard Morgan, who was there:
I remember seeing all the dead bodies littering the beach.
Some were killed on the first landing. They were fodder for the German guns. Others were washed in by the tide where their boats had been caught.
… I want to pay homage to my colleagues who gave their lives. Now that I’m a good old age I like to make friends not enemies, so I can’t think badly of the Germans now – they weren’t all bad.
I was an only child, and I often think about what my dear old mother used to say when there was news on the radio about how many German planes had been shot down.
My dad would say: “Oh, great!” But my mother would say: “Well they all belong to somebody. It could have been my lad.”
