The day before the ship had been narrowly missed by a large calibre shell, probably fired by a German railway gun near Le Havre. Two Royal Marines were seriously wounded by splinters. @RoyalNavy contribution to #DDay didn’t end on 6 June. #DDay75 #FiringOnFortressEurope

0210 01.07.44 #HMSBelfast Gunnery Officer Peter Brooke Smith reports shooting down a German intruder over the Normandy gunline. “The plane crashed in flames...We can justly claim a share although there was lots of stuff going up.” #FiringOnFortressEurope #DDay75

Bit concerned that my new book #FiringOnFortressEurope might be misconstrued as intervention in Brexit debate :/