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INTERVIEW WITH DAVID TEACHER MBE force hierarchy came down and said, “These lads have got to be dressed in blue.” There was a big argument going on and he said “I’m very sorry but they are Royal Air Force, and RAF uniform is blue, so they will wear blue end of story.” So we were issued with brand-new kit and it was about this time that the king came and inspected us all. We (about a group of 30 men) stood out like a sore finger, so the king wanted to know what this bit of blue was doing among all the khaki. He drove over in his Jeep and dismounted. We opened ranks and he inspected each one of us. We were highly delighted because it was one up for the RAF on the army! It was fabulous.” By contrast, Teacher’s memories of Montgomery, the commander of all Allied ground forces for the invasion, were mixed: “He was a very moody man, one day he would be very sociable, another he wouldn’t speak to anybody. He was always encouraging us and very optimistic that everything would go well. He was right at the end of the day but he made a lot of mistakes. He wouldn’t listen to advice, he was always right and he always did what he wanted to do.” By the summer all preparations were complete for ‘Operation Overlord’ and Teacher drove his Bedford truck to Southampton on 5 June 1944. His was the last of three Bedford trucks (and the only one belonging to the RAF) to reverse onto a landing craft, which meant that he would be first off when it landed for the invasion. However, despite months of training and speculation Teacher didn’t know what his destination would be: “We had no idea where we were landing, not even when we got there. We weren’t told anything. I was waiting in a landing craft for about four hours before we went ashore and the coxswain wouldn’t say where we were. I don’t even know if he knew, certainly he wouldn’t tell me if he did.” D-Day Amidst a choppy sea on 6 June 1944, Teacher sat on top of a truck and observed the vast armada he was part of: “It was unbelievable. You could not realise what was going on. There were thousands of ships and landing craft, battleships, destroyers, aircraft flying overhead… the noise was unbelievable. When the navy started bombarding a couple of hours before we went ashore, it was horrendous.” As the flotilla made its way south, Teacher remembers wanting to start what he had trained for months to do: “I just wanted to get on with it. I was just keen to get ashore and get started. We’d been trained repeatedly and now it was a case of putting it all into practice and seeing how well it went. As it happens it went very well indeed. The weather caused more damage than the enemy.” The official orders for the Beach Squadrons on D-Day were as follows: “Nos. 1, 2 and 4 RAF Beach Squadrons will work with the Army Beach Organisation to supervise the discharge of RAF “I JUST WANTED TO GET ON WITH IT. I WAS JUST KEEN TO GET ASHORE AND GET STARTED” Mike Sector on Juno Beach around the time that Teacher landed at 8.20am on 6 June 1944. One of the dots on the beach near the landing craft is Teacher’s Bedford QL truck 52
D-DAY, BASTOGNE AND BEYOND “WE HAD NO IDEA WHERE WE WERE LANDING, NOT EVEN WHEN WE GOT THERE. WE WEREN’T TOLD ANYTHING” 53
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