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Commemorating the Normandy landings

The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, termed D-Day, saw Allied forces begin a major offensive against the Germans. Over 8,000 RAF personnel took part in the D-Day operations with more than 5,000 aircraft involved in the air assaults. Learn more about the RAF's involvement in D-Day.

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  Remembering the veterans of D-Day

  6 June 2014

  Sergeant Lee Wrake joined the RAF at the age of 19. On 6 June 1944 he landed on Omaha Beach, and after saving a man who was hit in the stomach, he himself was hit in the chest by shrapnel. 

• Spearheading the attack on Fortress Europe

  2 June 2014

  Spearheading the attack on Normandy was just the start of Geoff Packham's extraordinary experience as the end of the war approached.

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  "It was actually terribly exciting, we knew this was it"

  23 May 2014

  Ninety-one year old Eric Reedman was a 21-year-old Leading Aircraftman with Advanced HQ, 80 Wing at the start of D-Day. Two days before D-Day he was posted to Old Sarum, Wiltshire, where his unit waited to make their way to Gold Beach.

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