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Most of the platoon made it to the wall. I ran across the beach up to the wall passing one rifleman that was wounded. We were told not to stop on the beach to help anyone. I got up to the wall and I looked down to see carnage on the beach. I saw boats blown up and damaged and men lying on the beach and men struggling to get out of the water and run across the beach. Our Corporal Bill Dainty was lying there gasping for breath so we propped him up against the wall and he died almost instantly. “Stumpy” Gordon ran along the wall with a flame thrower towards the pill box where the Germans were. He aimed the flamethrower but it didn’t work, all that came out was a small “squirt” of flame. He threw the flamethrower down and came back along the wall. A shout went up “down here, there’s a hole in the wall”. Our Sgt. Frank Gaines called us to follow. Sgt. Gaines and our Lieutenant went through the wall first when suddenly there was an explosion. We thought our Lieutenant was gone. There was dust and debris blown up and when it cleared away our Lieutenant ran down the wall and the Sgt. and the rest of the platoon followed. Abby Emlaw and me set our Bren gun up on a high sand dune and gave covering fire to the rest of the platoon as they made their way along the back of the wall. They took prisoners and kept going thru small buildings about 100 yards further as Abby and I joined them with our Bren gun. Later when everything was settled, our Lieutenant said we had another job to do so we made our way down the beach and discovered a large artillery gun on the shoreline. #qor #qorofc #queensownrifles #ww2 #dday #normandy #junobeach

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