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- Vera Mitford
- Location of story:听
- Normandy
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A2553590
- Contributed on:听
- 23 April 2004
Vera Mitford, Northumberland.
My husband landed at the beaches at Aramanch.
He was one of the first of the boats.
We went back to visit there on the 50th anniversary of the landings.
He was at "Pegasus bridge".
When we both went over he showed me where he spent the first night on the beach, wet and cold and miserable.
We also went to see many of the war graves, looking for people that he knew and found a cousin that he knew that was with the convoys.
My husband spent a lot of his time building "Bailey" bridges and clearing mine fields.
He then went to the far east but it is Normandy that he talks the most about
He is 80 now and was over there for some years.
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