They include a US Spitfire pilot, shot down over enemy territory on D-Day while under British command, and a brave Belgian serving with the 23rd Hussars when his tank was blown to bits. The majority, however, were Brits, men like Glasgow-born Charles Coyle who was sunk three times – but didn’t come back from the third.
What they all have in common, all 98 of them, is that they died in the most pivotal battle in modern history – the Battle of Normandy – but were subsequently somehow overlooked.
Not anymore, however. For this morning, as we mark the 82nd anniversary of D-Day and
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