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Pic: Pen&Sword/BNPS<br />
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Pictured: Sergeant Brian Moss' sketch titled 'Watch your step' restored in colour. <br />
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A harrowing account by a D-Day veteran describing 'the dull thuds of bullets striking bodies' has come to light 79 years on.<br />
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Sergeant Brian Moss, of the 233 Field Engineers, tells of German machine guns 'tearing into them' as they landed on Gold Beach.<br />
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The sapper was among the first six men who reached a fortified casemate, glancing back at the beach to see 'no one else on their feet, only the dead and dying'. <br />
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Brian wrote of his June 6, 1944 ordeal in his memoirs, which were jotted down over several notebooks. He had a remarkable war, during which he was also a Blitz bomb disposal expert, and took part in the North African and Sicily campaigns and Operation Market Garden.

BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833.
Pic: Pen&Sword/BNPS

Pictured: Sergeant Brian Moss' sketch titled 'Watch your step' restored in colour.

A harrowing account by a D-Day veteran describing 'the dull thuds of bullets striking bodies' has come to light 79 years on.

Sergeant Brian Moss, of the 233 Field Engineers, tells of German machine guns 'tearing into them' as they landed on Gold Beach.

The sapper was among the first six men who reached a fortified casemate, glancing back at the beach to see 'no one else on their feet, only the dead and dying'.

Brian wrote of his June 6, 1944 ordeal in his memoirs, which were jotted down over several notebooks. He had a remarkable war, during which he was also a Blitz bomb disposal expert, and took part in the North African and Sicily campaigns and Operation Market Garden.