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After a few weeks at Brecon, where I had completed a motor transport course, I was sent on a draft and had...

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Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 2 of 13 - Parachute Training)icon for Story with photo

Out of a batch of forty or more applicants at that time from the battalion, just two of us eventually went...

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When passing through the fifteen-miles-wide Straits of Gibraltar, which separates Africa from Europe,...

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In the sophisticated ‘joints’, half-naked Arab girls could be seen dancing to the sensuous...

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We were assisted off Djebel Mansour by a contingent of the French Foreign Legion who set up a rearguard...

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In preparation for the forthcoming airborne attacks against the Axis forces in Sicily, the whole division...

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Meanwhile, back in North Africa, in comparative safety, while the 1st Airborne Division pushed on with the...

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On an early December day, we were billeted under canvas in huge marquees in a camp that had been set up in...

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As winter slid into spring, with the invasion of Europe imminent, it was increasingly evident that it would...

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Parts of the town were ablaze as the Germans brought their flame-throwers into action and Arnhem was fast...

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There were compounds for Russians, Poles and Italians, and transit compounds for the working parties which...

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The news from the BBC bulletins told us that the American and Russian troops were making great strides deep...

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