An apprentice engineer who constructed a lighting beacon for the 80th anniversary of D-Day said he was privileged to honour his grandfather who served in the Second World War.
Even though some are more than 100 years old, they flew to Normandy to mark the day 80 years ago they fought for the liberation of Europe and lost their friends.
and he s one of them. and it s so important to keep this history really, really. you know, it s important for kids and for everybody to know about the history. on d day, as the allied invasion of northern france began, ralph was the signaller on board one of these a landing craft tank. this is the last surviving lct as they were known. it sits outside the d day story museum in portsmouth. ralph has a vivid memory of climbing down from the bridge when he heard the metallic pinging sound of german snipers bullets hitting the metal of the craft around him. i was going down, you could hear ping, ping, ping. i thought. they re after me, them snipers! and they got german snipers in the houses, in the houses there, so i dropped and threw myself into where the. . .where
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