The Veteran Searching for his D-Day Shipwreck
Dan Snow's History Hit
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D day was the first day of the normandy invasion by british, canadian, american and other allied forces to liberate western europe from the grip of narce occupation. It would be the largest and most ambitious amphibious invasion in the history of warfare,. code named operation overlord. May 19 forty four initially was the chosen month for the launch of the operation, but difficulties in assembling the landing craft forced postponement until june. The trormer of the experience never left patrick in the decades after the war. His boat went down with most of them trapped on board, friends and comrades. Patrick one of only a handful of survivors.
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