Officers began searching the area, including checking hospitals in case something had happened to him, and spoke to bus and taxi companies, but none of them knew where he was. He had gone out wearing a grey mackintosh and a jacket underneath with his war medals on, police said. Sussex police were called at 7.15pm on Thursday by staff at the Pines care home, Furze Hill, in Hove, who said an 89-year-old who lived there had gone out at 10.30am and had not been seen since. The pensioner, who left wearing his war medals, has contacted the home and said his friends are going to make sure he gets back safely when the commemorations end. More on the 89-year-old veteran who went missing from a nursing home in Sussex, only to turn up in Ouistreham today:Īn 89-year-old veteran reported missing from a nursing home was found in France marking the anniversary of the D-day landings. However, looking through the range finder some little time later I saw that, in the middle of countryside torn to chalk and trees reduced to kindling, the hospital tents were up and the medics getting on with their jobs. In fact it seemed as if it were possible to walk to the shore on dead bodies of men without getting your feet wet. Whilst the bombardment continued it seemed to us on the ship that we were invincible and that not one shot was being fired by the enemy, but when the smoke cleared after 3 hours, we could see an enormous amount of casualties. The US Texas delivered one broadside to the co-ordinates and got a message immediately that the job had been done. US Texas received a message that enemy artillery in a wood 20 miles inland were hampering the landings.
Even in those days the accuracy of the shooting was remarkable. All the time guns were blazing and the air was filled with acrid smoke. Landing craft deposited hundreds of tanks on the beaches preceded by crawler tractors laying wire mesh tank track to form a path of solid ground. The Texas Rangers were heaving grappling irons up the cliffs and climbing ropes under heavy fire to wipe out the guns which were raining bullets down on them. They stood with arms locked together so that each craft was filled to its utmost capacity. US soldiers, the Texas Rangers and the Marines landed in flat-bottomed boats and powered catamarans. At the height of the bombardment there was gunfire and smoke as far as the eye could see, both up and down the coast. I was a member of the ammunition party supplying shells for the 4” guns and an enormous amount passed through my hands. In a nod to the Ukraine conflict he added that the day was a "message of peace and a requirement for a United Nations that intervenes where it's necessary for the collective security … and a Europe that has allowed peace on a continent that was at war throughout the 20th century". Hollande said it was an "exceptional day" of unity and there was a duty of memory to all the war's victims "military, civilians, Allies and the German victims of Nazism". As the sun set on that longest day a light shone on enslaved Europe. The 6th June they began to liberate France. They advanced … at the risk of their own lives to combat a diabolic regime, they advanced for a noble cause, they advanced to liberate us. Those young men did not hesitate for one second. The 6th June is not a day like others: it is not just the longest day or a day to remember the dead, but a day for the living to keep the promise written with the blood of the fighters, to be loyal to their sacrifice by building a world that is fairer and more human.
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