The father of a family friend was a Lt. who landed in the first wave on Omaha Beach. The only reason that his LC reached the shore was that he pulled his .45 out and put it to the head of the British rating who was piloting it. In the first wave at Omaha, most of the Brit pilots went chicken and drowned their GIs by stopping well short of the beach and dropping them into water over their heads.
Never heard this but it sounds brit.
Have never cared for them.