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A WW2 soldier's war diary and book - Bill Cheall saw action at Dunkirk, North Africa, Sicily, First wave on Gold Beach on D Day and Hamburg. He had a Queen Mary voyage to Egypt and was wounded in action in Normandy. 50 Div WW2 soldier. World war 2 diary story and book.
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More detail on the chapters of this war diary book:
Introduction
Dunkirk - Prologue: Looking for Bray-Dunes
1. The Beginning – The Territorial Army – 1939
2. Call Up
3. Dunkirk - We Join the British Expeditionary Force
4. Dunkirk
5. Dunkirk - The Aftermath
6. Dunkirk - We Reorganize
7. Training Begins
8. I Am Posted
9. North Africa - To the Middle East (on the Queen Mary) - Click to see original war diary pages for this story
10. North Africa - Egypt, The Desert
11. North Africa - Back to the Green Howards
12. North Africa - Wadi Akarit, Into Battle
13. Sicily - Preparing
14. Sicily, Into Battle
15. Our Return to England
16. D-Day - Intensive Training (for D-Day)
17. D-Day - Time for Action
18. D-Day - D minus 1 to D-Day
19. D-Day - Grim Determination – D-Day, 6 June 1944
20. D-Day - D plus 1 to D plus 30
21. My Rest Cure
22. Back to Duty
23. Germany - Hamburg and Peace
24. Germany - Oberhausen, Germany
25. Germany - Duisburg, The End of my War story
Epilogue: Back to Normandy, June 1984
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