D-Day 80 Memorial

This is a special place for you to share memories and photos of your loved ones who were involved in D-Day - and the wider war effort.

“…the spirit of the people, resolute, dedicated, burned like a bright flame, lit surely from those unseen fires which nothing can quench.”  King George VI, 6 June 1944 (D-Day)

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Thomas Young

David Gagen
18/05/2024

My Grandad Tom served in the Royal Navy on Motor torpedo boats but mostly on mine sweepers. On D Day he was on one of His Majesty’s mine sweepers clearing the lanes towards the landing beaches, something that could only be done immediately before the landings so as not to give away what was about to happen on the Normandy coast. So in the dark in at best choppy sea state three or four abreast cutting loose the tethered mines and I believe shooting them to dispose of them. Unsung heroes of DDay

Thomas Young
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