Bomb landed at Juno Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, with the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment at Bernières-sur-Mer and was almost immediately involved in fighting at Authie and Buron where the Fusiliers destroyed 41 tanks in their first two days of fighting [REF].
Sergeant Futter, the crew commander and Trooper Red Fletcher, the driver, were wounded by shell fragments in Normandy in July 1944 and were replaced by Lieutenant Paul Ayriss and Trooper Ken Gerow.