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D-Day veteran Don Sheppard dies aged 104

Recalling his landing at Juno beach, Mr Sheppard described D-Day to the PA News agency in 2019 as a “waste of life” but recognised the landings as being “so important”.

He said: “I know we had to defend ourselves… but young guys like me 20, 21, who never lasted five minutes, some of them got killed before they got off the boat.

“Tragic, absolutely.”

When he arrived at the beach at around 16:30, Mr Sheppard said the Germans had “really got the distance and shells were coming over like rain”, with battleships also firing over their heads.

“We lost quite a few guys,” he said. “We (the survivors) were lucky really.”

After breaking through Nazi lines in the August, he continued through to Belgium, the Netherlands and eventually Germany – including to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.


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