"THE HUMAN HELM"; YOUNG MARINE'S BRAVERY SAVES LANDING CRAFT. 15 JUNE 1944, ON BOARD LSI EMPIRE HALBERD, AT SOUTHAMPTON. 19 YEAR-OLD CORPORAL GEORGE TANDY, RM, OF CHARLTON, LONDON, STEERED HIS DAMAGED ASSAULT CRAFT ON D-DAY FOR 14 MILES, BY HANGING OVER THE STERN AND GUIDING THE RUDDER WITH HIS LEFT FOOT. HE DID SO UNTIL THE NORMANDY SHORE WAS REACHED AND THEN BACK TO THE PARENT SHIP. - Corporal C E Tandy, RM, in the position he took up as the LCA left for the beach

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