‘The sea around was red with blood, but you had to keep going’: D-day veterans attend their last big gathering‘The sea around was red with blood, but you had to keep going’: D-day veterans attend their last big gatheringKen Peppercorn almost didn’t make it to Gold beach. “It was quite a mess, but you just had to keep going.” He managed to surface and get to the beach. It was a few days after D-day, and Peppercorn was 22 years old. Within a week of landing in Normandy, he had been badly wounded in the leg by shrapnel and taken prisoner by the Germans. Photograph: Courtesy of the Peppercorn familyA dwindling number of D-day veterans – now all aged over 90 – will take part in services on both sides of the Channel.

Source: The Guardian June 02, 2019 05:03 UTC