Parks, who enlisted at 15 and is now 94, describes what it was like that day on Juno Beach, in his own words:On D-Day we were in a landing craft tank. We had a landing craft, and the idea was to go in with long ropes on the back with grappling hooks and two sappers. On the shore itself, they had casements where the Germans had their guns and machine guns and further back they had mortars and so on. On the way in, the landing craft were still coming in. He was mortally wounded, so I took his Sten gun and I took his small pack and I headed up to the pill box.

Source: thestar June 04, 2019 07:52 UTC