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  • John Henry Phillips on BBC Suffolk (Audio)

    John Henry Phillips on BBC Suffolk (Audio)

    John Henry Phillips on the sofa with Lesley Dolphin for BBC Suffolk talking about the search for a lost D-Day shipwreck.

    “In the midst of all of the landings and the War, ships were dropping like flies, and so there wasn’t time to reflect and try to find out what happened. It was just forgotten about basically. With Patrick realizing that people do care about his story, and me asking him a few times, ‘Has anybody looked for your ship?’ and then realizing that there is no memorial for those men who died.” – John Henry Phillips

    Listen to the BBC interview below:

  • BBC News: Archaeologist in search for ‘lost’ World War Two ship

    A friendship between an archaeologist and a Royal Navy veteran has led to an attempt to seek out the lost wreck of a ship that sank during World War Two.

    John Henry Philips, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, met 93-year-old Patrick Thomas, from Eastbourne, while in Normandy.

    He has promised to find the landing craft, destroyed by a mine shortly after the D-Day landings and create a monument to honour Mr Thomas’ fallen shipmates, most of whom were killed in the explosion.

    Read more at BBC.com or watch the segment below!