Eighty years after D-Day, it’s the colossal barrage of ammunition fire that Richard Brock remembers. Just a week out of his teens, his very first experience of action was scrambling ashore at Normandy’s Gold Beach as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history. “The massive noise of battleship gunfire right over our heads targeting the coastal defences was horrendous – like hell on earth,” remembers Brock, of the East Lancashire Regiment’s 1st Battalion. “We were the support troops, so by then the Germans had got organised and we were getting all the heavy stuff from them, too.” For Brock, it was just the start of a 12-mon
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