ROBERT HARDMAN: Seven D-Day heroes came back to Normandy
Jack Quinn's landing craft was even ahead of the first wave on D-Day. He landed the night before, ferrying a team of commandos whose task was to attach explosives to German beach defences.
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Jack Quinn's landing craft was even ahead of the first wave on D-Day. He landed the night before, ferrying a team of commandos whose task was to attach explosives to German beach defences.
The Taxi Charity recently pulled out all the stops for one war veteran's special reunion with a French girl he'd met briefly 78 years ago . . .
Reg Pye kept a picture of Huguette, now 92, in his wallet for 78 years.
Reg Pye, now 99, from south Wales was serving in the Royal Engineers in 1944 when he met 14-year-old Huguette. He gave her a jam sandwich and she left him milk and a picture in his mess tin.
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