Obituary: Douglas Parker, Normandy veteran
Submitting... He had joined the forces in 1941 at 18, “as a way to escape”, he said, leaving behind his job as a metal window frame maker. Instead he fought in one of the bloodiest battles of the war. “I really didn’t know what I was getting into. It was really rough. We were boxed in for quite a while. But it had to be successful, and it was,” he recalled in recent years. “If it hadn’t, it would have been a catastrophe. It was the worst part of the war – it was in such a small ...
Source: yorkshirepost.co.uk