A crewman on a British motor torpedo boat leaving from Newhaven, George Chandler from Burgess Hill crossed the Channel on the afternoon of D-Day. His vessel was an armed guard for the American ...
Day veteran George Chandler, who sought to counter sometimes glamorous depictions of the landings by recalling the horrors he witnessed escorting U.S. troops to the beaches of northern France as a ...
He was 99. Chandler, who served aboard a British motor torpedo boat during the invasion of Normandy that began on June 6, 1944, was one of the dwindling cohort of D-Day survivors who gathered last ...