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A 99-year-old D-Day veteran has recalled how he first learned he was taking part in the invasion as he was making his way across the Channel to join forces that had already landed at Normandy.

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More than 400 multinational paratroopers jumped into Normandy on Wednesday 5 June ... tasked to secure the eastern flank of the invasion beaches. Eighty years later, British, Belgian, Canadian ...

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