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@DrTregoning @WW2TV A veteran is considered to be someone who has served for at least one day in the armed forces.

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@Vanguard_WW2 There is to be a new life size bronze statue erected of him on August 15th in France.

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@Taff_Gillingham What was the white band for Taff?

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@churchill_alex Coolest racer ever Barry sheene loved cigs so much he drilled a hole in his crash helmet so he could smoke with it on.

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@ReassessHistory The main error was no one was shooting a 357 from 900 yds whilst chewing on a cigar and calling people goddam limeys. Followed by tipping his helmet back using the muzzle.

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@BoneyAbroad Even less for the other D Day in the South of France. Luckily the french won't forget and there's a new bronze statue being erected of General Frederick at the Parachute memorial.

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@James1940 My research has hit a dead end. Tracing anyone from the unit has yielded 3 people in 3 years and the families aren't interested at all.

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@Taff_Gillingham Will it fit in kevs new workshop? I reckon my dad would volunteer 7 days a week then!

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@jbanningww1 @Scarletboy44 There is worse out there. The cemetery at Imphal had waist high grass. 2 ladies and some hotel gardeners cleared some to enable the laying of crosses etc

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@Taff_Gillingham Make sure it's well scrubbed before it goes back into stores....or my mum wont be happy 😆

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That's not a horsa glider. I mean it's not that hard to Google is it?

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Good lord 😢

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Imagine going all the way to Burma to visit the Imphal cemetery and paying your respects to find the grass waist high and the graves filthy. They cut the grass using hotel equipment but sadly never located their relative. 😢 #Burma #WW2

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@ReassessHistory Nice. Shinier than the one recovered from the fields where my grandfather's glider landed.

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@clark_aviation It's OK, there's probably 300 captains sitting in Whitehall 'looking busy'

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@air_intel I was on the bridge when we hit the jetty in the Falklands. It went deathly silent then from below someone shouted ' you can't park there' The Jimmy went spare 😆

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@ErnestMalley @robert_lyman @militaryhistori @WW2TV @almurray @James1940 @surprisepodcast @AndyAitcheson @rentaquill 😂 my gran was telling a long winded story about her ww2 service and how an officer used to bully her, she finished with....so when he wasn't looking I painted a swastika on his dachshund. I laugh to myself every time I see one.

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@cluelesspegg @CWGC Family could have lost their faith in religion after losing someone. Some didn't even want a war grave or their names added to the local war memorial. The 'discovery' of missing names being found and added to a war memorial can be a contentious issue.

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@WeHaveWaysPod British airborne landings in southern France during Op Dragoon. 80th anniversary.

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@HorrorBiscuits Stwike him, vewy woughly.