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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

D-Day 80: London veterans tell of their part in D-Day landings ahead of 80th anniversary

Two London D-Day veterans have told of their roles in the decisive World War Two military operation on its 80th anniversary.

Bob Gravells, 99, from Woolwich, and George Simpson, 100, from Croydon served as a Navy gunner and in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers respectively when the Allies launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare on June 6, 1944.

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