Meanwhile, LCI's 302 and 310, and the three U.S. LCI's were on the beach. While waiting for low water, the crew of 310 went into the town of Arromanches and the officers took a look at the nearby village of Asnelles. The ratings brought back from a German officers' mess in Arromanches a number of souvenirs including German uniforms, a radio, an accordion, various insignia, a Nazi flag, a Brenn gun, rifles and ammunition and, not least, an elegant French brassiere. No booby traps were found.

At low tide 310 got her kedge rigged again but when high water came and they were kedging off they found that their kedge had fouled a mine which was endangering LCI 302 on the beach beside them. They therefore had to cut the kedge again. 302 also found her kedge fouled by an LCI and had to cut the wire. Fortunately 310 was able to get off the beach on engines alone and then took 302 in tow and got her off on the evening high water.

LCI 302 reported for ferry service duties as a U.S. LCT Squadron Headquarters. The last convoy of the evening was by this time sailing for England. 310 started out with the convoy but lost it in a smoke screen laid by destroyers to protect shipping off the beaches from an air raid which began about 2300. It was by this time too late to return to England, northbound sailings being restricted as far as possible to daylight hours to avoid traffic congestion. Therefore 310 waited in the anchorage and returned to England the next morning with an LSI convoy, none the worse for several short tip and run raids by enemy aircraft during the night.

As the assault forces began to stream back from the beach head on the afternoon of D-day, a strange sense of relief seeped into the consciousness of everyone. The supreme tension ebbed quickly and the crews of the assault ships and craft of the minesweepers and bombardment destroyers which had preceded them, began to recollect that many of them had been prepared not to see the end of that historic day. Tensions had been wound up by months of training, by the uncertainties of the eventual date of the invasion and by the elaborate and often sensational press write-ups which had preceded the great event.