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Very interesting

Yes, do but please put my grandad's name on it if you will. John Goodfellow. I think the anecdote that goes with it is good too but I am biased.

Thanks. So many anecdotes about the second world war are leaving us daily. Dan Snow is doing a great job trying to archive them.

Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I read it. Amazing to think that this bit of paper actually went to D-Day. please tell me this worked? I went all advanced and everything.

does this work?

I just clicked on it and it seems to be working. I will try and post it some other way. I think it is a decent bit of historical data

These are my grandad's D-Day orders. He told me that they used to get dummy orders every day, similar to these. When he opened these ones and read them to his men, to a man, they were all sick over the side of the boat. He led the allied forces out of Portsmouth harbour on D-Day in the two...