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06.06.2024 - 16:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
On June 6 1944, Allied forces from Britain, America and the Commonwealth gathered on five beaches in Normandy, ready to launch the biggest naval and airborne invasion the world had ever seen.
D-Day is now known as the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany and war in Europe. Today, 80 years on, 23 veterans who are still able to travel have made the trip to France in order to commemorate the attack.
Today is a chance to remember the sacrifice made by so many - and leaders from across the world will gather to mark the anniversary.
At the Manchester Evening News, we’re taking the opportunity to remember some of the brave men from our region who put their life on the line 80 years ago. Veteran Norman Coleman, from Stalybridge in Tameside, is one of the many men from Greater Manchester who was sent to Normandy in 1944.
In 2014, Norman's daughter, Marion, told the M.E.N: "Just before they landed he looked back and it looked like he could walk back to England, there were so many ships and crafts in the Channel. The smell and the noise is something he can remember now."
Later, Norman helped to liberate Belgium and the Netherlands, before heading to Germany to liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. When he returned to Britain he worked in engineering and went on to have three children, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
He was later awarded France's highest honour, the Legion D’Honneur. Norman died in 2015 at the age of 92.
Harry Evans, who fought in the South Lancashire regiment, spoke to the M.E.N in 2014 and recalled preparing to be thrown into battle.
"We knew what it was going to be like," he said. "We were all very quiet, making jokes just to be happy, but everybody was frightened to death."
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