AN AMERICAN D-Day hero who was stationed in Bridport prior to the landings has died aged 100. Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert was one of the last surviving soldiers of the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, Normandy, during the Second World War. He died at his home in North Carolina on April 9. Serving as a medic in the medical detachment to the 2nd Battalion of the 16th Regiment and the 1st Division, he was in Bridport from November 1943 until June 1944. The medical detachment was based in the Literary and Scientific Institute in East Street as well as some houses in Barrack Street.