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D-day veteran pays tribute to ‘wonderful shipmates’ for 80th anniversary

Source: PA Wire

A Royal Navy veteran has paid tribute to his “wonderful shipmates” who died in the D-day invasion 80 years ago and said that history “must never be forgotten”.

D-day veteran Alec

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