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WW2 veteran holds back tears as he recalls being captured weeks after D-Day
The Independent
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5/19/2024
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We went out on night patrol. We were supposed to be doing a blow-up of a self-propelled
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gun in no-man's land, but in fact it was behind their lines, so they let us through and then,
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very unfriendly, they sealed it and wouldn't let us back. So we had a battle. We had 30
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went out on our patrol, our platoon. 16, including my brother who was a corporal, got back. Five
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of us got captured and then presumably nine got killed.
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