manuscript diary page

Scan of a handwritten personal diary open to two pages covering June 4 through June 10, 1944, documenting the historic events of D-Day and the Normandy landings. Entries include notes on Trinity Sunday (« Must be near D DAY »), June 5 (« D DAY TOMORROW EVERY BODY QUITE EXCITED. WE LAND AT Arromanches »), June 6 (« 06:00 get in LCA, SEA VERY ROUGH? HIT THE BEACH at 0720 HRS… terrible fighting and ghastly sights »), and subsequent days detailing combat actions, casualties, moving inland, and addressing « Joan Darling »