article_snippet.sent: BILL WRIGHT was a fresh-faced 19-year-old recruit and D-Day
article_snippet.sent: was BILL WRIGHT first experience of warfare.
article_snippet.sent: it was People first action,’ BILL WRIGHT said.
article_snippet.sent: BILL WRIGHT said BILL WRIGHT recalled being extremely sea sick on the way over as the seas were choppy.
article_snippet.sent: BILL WRIGHT was on one of the American landing craft and remembered ‘the chap in charge was absolutely brilliant.
article_snippet.sent: BILL WRIGHT was cool as a cucumber and put us ashore almost dry.
article_snippet.sent: BILL WRIGHT BILL WRIGHT was in the Staffordshire Yeomanry who came ashore in the ‘second wave’ of troops.
article_snippet.sent: Fortunately for BILL WRIGHT BILL WRIGHT was inside a tank – working as the radio operator and loader.
article_snippet.sent: We were too busy to be frightened,’ BILL WRIGHT said.
article_snippet.sent: ’ BILL WRIGHT stayed in Normandy for two months before returning to England to re-train to work in amphibious tanks.
article_snippet.sent: In the winter of 1944 BILL WRIGHT saw further action in Holland and then moved into Germany in the final months of the war.
article_snippet.sent: Later, when further action in Holland moved to Holland, BILL WRIGHT had an astonishing escape when shrapnel pierced BILL WRIGHT helmet and ’ ERIC GILLscalped BILL WRIGHT.
article_snippet.sent: The Private with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry suffered a six inch wound on BILL WRIGHT head and couldn’t see for the blood streaming over BILL WRIGHT face, but BILL WRIGHT survived to tell the tale.
article_snippet.sent: At 19, with the Nazi threat growing, BILL WRIGHT joined the army and was in Burma when war broke out.
article_snippet.sent: WRIGHT wartime adventures saw BILL WRIGHT escape the horrors of the Burmese jungle by walking 400 miles to India, then travel to Australia with 1,000 Italian prisoners of war and on to New York before returning to
article_snippet.sent: BILL WRIGHT arrived in Normandy four days after D-Day and headed across mainland Europe on the push for victory.