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Cheall, Bill.
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Cheall, Bill.
Great Britain. Army. Green Howards -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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Cheall, Bill.
Cheall, Bill.
Great Britain. Army. Green Howards -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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Fighting through-- from Dunkirk to Hamburg : a Green Howard's wartime memoir / Paul Cheall ; from the original story by Bill Cheall.
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Cheall, Bill.
Pen & Sword Military, 2011.
Call #:
940
.548141
C514f
Subjects
Cheall, Bill.
Great Britain. Army. Green Howards -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
ISBN:
9781848844742 (hc.)
1848844743 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 157 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"This story is dedicated to the Green Howards."
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Prologue: Looking for Bray-Dunes -- The beginning : the Territorial Army, 1939 -- Call up -- We join the British Expeditionary Force -- Dunkirk -- The aftermath -- We reorganize -- Training begins -- I am posted -- To the Middle East -- Egypt, the desert -- Back to the Green Howards -- Wadi Akarit, into battle -- Preparing -- Sicily -- Our return to England -- Intensive Training (for D-Day) -- Time for action -- D minus 1 to D-Day -- Grim determination : D-Day, 6 June 1944 -- D plus 1 to D plus 30 -- My rest cure -- Back to duty -- Hamburg and peace -- Oberhausen, Germany -- Duisburg, the end of my war -- Epilogue: Back to Normandy, June 1984 -- Names I will always remember.
Summary:
"Bill Bheall was a Green Howard, a foot soldier in the British Expeditionary Force that experienced the sharp end of Hitler's May 1940 Blitzkrieg and was evacuated exhausted from Dunkirk. His next move was to North Africa, courtesy of the Queen Mary, to be part of Monty's 8th Army. After eventual victory in Tunisia, the Sicily invasion followed. Alongside a number of other battle-hardened units, the Green Howards were then ordered back to England to form the vanguard of the Normandy Invasion. In the fierce fighting that followed the D-Day landing on Gold Beach, he was wounded and evacuated. Once fit, Bill finished the war with the East Lancs as a Regimental Policeman in devastated occupied Germany"--Provided by publisher.
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