Driving an Ambulance on D-Day
Harold Brown joined the Royal Army Service Corps as an ambulance driver in April 1941. On 6th June 1944, aged 24, he drove his ambulance off the troop carrier and underwater before driving up the beach during the D-Day landings. Subsequently, his unit, the VIII Corps, fought their way up through Holland where he took part in the liberation of Eindhoven in September 1944. They then went on to Germany where Harold was on duty during the liberation of prisoners from the Belsen Concentration Camp. On VE Day he was stationed west of Lubeck in Germany and recorded in his diary "VE Day, war over. Had... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
Schlagwörter: | British history / European history (excl. British / classical Greek and Roman) / International history / Their Finest Hour / World War Two / Air Raid / Armed Forces / Armies / Army / Blitz / Bomb / Bombed / Bombing / Bombing raids / Bombs / Britain / British / Civilian / Civilians / Concentration Camp / D-Day / D-Day Landings / Diaries / Diary / Documentation / Dutch / England / English / Europe / European / German / Germany / Health / Healthcare / Holland / Holocaust / Home Front / Hospital / I-D / ID / Identity cards / Letter / Letters / Medic / Medical / Medicine / Netherlands / North West Europe / Nurse |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25935580.v1 |