
'I come back to France for my comrades who didn't make it'
Ken Cooke, now aged 99, was part of D-Day operations in 1944 - he is back in Normandy for VE Day.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Ken Cooke, now aged 99, was part of D-Day operations in 1944 - he is back in Normandy for VE Day.
Mr Newton served in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards as a loader in an amphibious Sherman Tank.