"That’s me and my girlfriend, Estelle Dillon. And that was in Berchem, Antwerp, not long after it was liberated in September 1944."

"During the occupation, she must have been 13 or 14, because she was 16 when I knew her. But, anyway, she was quite young. She used to go out on her bike into the country, and she used to get food and smuggle it back into Antwerp. Now if the Germans had caught her they wouldn't have liked it, putting it mildly! But she said 'I never got caught!'"

-- Uncle Walter Quiney, a teenage tipper truck driver in the R.A.S.C, who had his 19th birthday on the beaches of Normandy a few months before this photo in front of his truck was taken. It's a Canadian Dodge he picked up new from Liverpool Docks earlier in the year, landed in Normandy on D+16, (The storm a week before meant they went back to using landing craft rather than the storm damaged quay) helped clean up Caen and Antwerp, before finally ending up in Berlin a year later, pretty much clapped out!View full size.