Amid a choppy sea on 6 June 1944, a 20-year-old leading aircraftman of the RAF Beach Squadrons sat on top of his truck and observed the vast armada he was part of: “It was unbelievable. You could not realise what was going on. There were thousands of ships and landing craft, battleships, destroyers, aircraft flying overhead… the noise was unbelievable. When the navy started bombarding a couple of hours before we went ashore, it was horrendous.”
As the flotilla made its way south, David Teacher remembers wanting to start what he had trained for months to do: “I just wanted to get on with it. I was just
