A D-Day veteran has spoken of his sad memories of seeing young Americans slaughtered. George Chandler, from Burgess Hill, was just 19 years old when he served aboard the British motor torpedo boat MTB 710 as part of a flotilla which provided a guarding escort for the US Army assault on Omaha and Utah beaches. For about three months without a break, Mr Chandler’s flotilla returned to Newhaven each night for refuelling and rearming and a few hours of sleep before returning across the Channel.
The 99-year-old said: “Let me assure you, what you read in those silly books that have been written about D-Day is absolute crap, it’s a load of old rubbish. “I was there, how can I forget it? It’s a very sad memory because I watched young American Rangers not shot, slaughtered. George Chandler was just 19-year-old when he served in Normandy (Image: PA) “And they were young.
I was 19 at the time, these kids were younger than me when I was there and I saw them shot.” READ MORE: Events will take place across the county to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day He spoke on Monday at a gathering of veterans at the headquarters where D-Day was planned. About 40 veterans met at Southwick House, near Portsmouth, which was the headquarters of Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower.
A giant map still adorns a wall in the 19th-century manor house which is now home to the Defence School of Policing and Guarding. After the Normandy campaign, Mr Chandler’s boat was deployed to the M.
