D-Day Veterans Were Too Busy Fighting to Be Terrified

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D awn is rising over the Normandy coastline, as we sit in a Volkswagen people carrier, waiting for the rain to subside. The windows are misting up, and D-Day veterans Michael Brennan, 83, and Albert Williams, 87, look out at the beach where they both landed, 12 hours apart, on June 6, 1944.

For Michael, one of the assault troops from the pioneering Dorset regiment, the long sands of Gold beach were unmarked by footprints when he arrived at 7.25am.

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D-Day Veterans Were Too Busy Fighting to Be Terrified

For Albert, General Montgomery's mechanic, it was early evening before he stepped out on to the beach, by which time the thousands of footprints had been covered up almost entirely by bodies and body parts.

"It was carnage," Albert says, as he stares outwardly t...

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