As ceremonies note 75th anniversary of Allied landings in Normandy,two veterans tell their talesKen Peppercorn almost didn’t beget it to Gold beach. He fell off the ramp of his landing craft into an underwater shell gap. “I nearly went under. I was loaded up with all the equipment – hand grenades in my pockets, magazines in my pouches, and everything else I could carry.”The sea around him was red with blood. “It was quite a mess,but you just had to keep going.” He managed to surface and glean to the beach. “We were under fire but I scrambled up the dunes and found a shell crater to shelter in. I was so hungry that the first thing I did was glean my rations out and beget porridge,” he said.
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Source: theguardian.com