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D-Day invasion: Signalman's vivid memories of Allied forces...
Two hours before Allied forces landed on Juno beach, signalman John Copson was on board a minesweeper cutting a path through to the Normandy coast.In the moments before dawn, the then 26-year-old, from...
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Mr Leicester: How Monty's double helped to confuse German...
As the military's number crunchers, life in the Royal Army Pay Corps was never going to be exciting.But that probably suited Australian-born Lieutenant Meyrick Clifton James.In 1940, a quiet wartime...
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D-Day 60th anniversary: 'I saw seven friends shot on that beach'
In the sweltering heat of a summer's morning in Normandy, Dave Brown pauses for a moment of reflection amid the thousands of graves of the war cemetery at Bayeux. Exactly 60 years ago, this elderly...
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Gallery: Leicestershire veterans in Normandy in 2004
Ten years ago, the Leicester Mercury sent photographer Emily Barber to cover the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Here is a selection of her photographs. And you can read the report from the the anniversary...
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D-Day 60th anniversary: Everyone has an amazing story to tell ...
Pick a man, any man. Don't be too fussy – stop just about any old boy in Normandy on the weekend of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, and you'll be almost guaranteed to hear an extraordinary...
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A service is being held tomorrow in Sapcote to commemorate D-Day.It will be held at Sapcote Cemetery, in Donkey Lane. and will start at noon.The vicar from All Saints Church, in Sapcote, will lead the...
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Amateur sculptor from Braunstone, Leicester, creates US...
Amateur sculptor Alan Rosak soldiered on for a year to create a life-sized American paratrooper out of scrap metal.The 52-year-old self-taught metal worker created the US soldier in his shed in...
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Gallery: Shooting D-Day, by the Leicester Mercury's man on the...
It's 8.30am on a summer morning in 1944, and journalist Jim Mapham is about to take the photograph of his life. He scans the sands near Hermanville-Sur-Mer through his viewfinder, settles on a jumble...
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D-Day 70th anniversary: More than a friendship – how ...
Lance Corporal Cyril Pope, of the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, was killed with 12 comrades on a farm in Normandy 70 on August 23, 1944. He was 24.Cyril had landed with his unit on D-Day,...
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D-Day 70th anniversary: War veterans gather for commemoration
Hundreds of British D-Day veterans were in Normandy today for a series of events marking the 70th anniversary of the greatest military invasion in history.A huge security operation swung into operation...
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D-Day 70th anniversary: We remember bravery of the D-Day...
Former soldier Jeremy Prescott reflects on the 'most important battle of the past two centuries'. As we commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World War, we commemorate also the 70th...
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D-Day 70th anniversary: How a Leicestershire man helped to fool...
It's 70 years since the D-Day landings – the largest and most decisive invasion in history. In the last couple of weeks, leading up to this important anniversary, I have told how Leicestershire played...
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Roll of honour: The Leicestershire men killed on D-Day
Cyril Taylor didn't even make it off the boat; the 19-year-old Marine was dead before his landing craft had scraped on to the bomb-blasted, bloody beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He died from shock, his...
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D-Day 70th anniversary: 'It was like hell' Eric Buckley's story...
D-Day was "like hell" for Eric Buckley, 89, of Thurmaston, who served with the Royal Navy.Aged 17, he lied about his age to join up. "I felt it was something I had to do as we had to win the war," he...
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