Название: In My Father's Footsteps: With the 53rd Welsh Division from Normandy to Hamburg
Автор: Gwilym Davies
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147383354X
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 19,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1944-45, Capt. G.H. Davies served with the hard-fighting 53rd Welsh Division. He was an artillery officer in command of a battery of 25-pdr field guns and saw action from Normandy to the final surrender of Nazi Germany. Capt. Davies was present at the Normandy battles, the fierce fighting for s'Hertogenbosch and the Battle of Arnhem.
During the course of the war, Capt. Davies kept a diary and also snatched a few photographs on his treasured camera. When the opportunityarose Capt. Davies liberated a camera from a fallen SS officer and, after the war, had the film developed. The film contained graphic images of the war from the German side of the line.