| John Mercer was called up in June 1944, and after an intense nine months of square-bashing, vehicle training, Morse code, and line laying, he became a gunner and landed in Normandy on 13 June 1944. The next year saw Mercer skirmishing in Belgium and suffering in waterlogged Holland, where he would spend hundreds of hours glued to the radio, waiting for a signal to fire. |
