Thursday,
31 October 2024
D–Day veteran remembers

LEN Maidment rode in the Anzac Day march atop Wangaratta CFA's 1938 Dodge fire truck, 78 years after serving in the Battle of Normandy.

The 98–year–old was a glider in the British Airborne Services, Artillery Division, in the D–Day landings during World War Two.

Although he made a perfect landing during D–Day, after Monday's Anzac Day service he recounted a time when his glider crashed a...

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