and he s one of them. and it s so important to keep this history really, really. you know, it s important for kids and for everybody to know about the history. on d day, as the allied invasion of northern france began, ralph was the signaller on board one of these a landing craft tank. this is the last surviving lct as they were known. it sits outside the d day story museum in portsmouth. ralph has a vivid memory of climbing down from the bridge when he heard the metallic pinging sound of german snipers bullets hitting the metal of the craft around him. i was going down, you could hear ping, ping, ping. i thought. they re after me, them snipers! and they got german snipers in the houses, in the houses there, so i dropped and threw myself into where the. . .where