D-Day: Veterans go back to remember the fallen

SERVICEMEN from Oxfordshire who stormed the Normandy beaches in 1944 are returning to remember their fallen comrades, 70 years to the day.

Troops of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry were the first across the Channel; Major John Howard, commanding the 6th Airborne division, captured the vital Pegasus Bridge river crossings on the Orne and Caen Canal, stopping the Germans sending more troops to the beaches.

Among those in Normandy today will be Patrick Churchill, right, from Witney, who was 21 when he took part in the Allied invasion as a Royal Marine Commando.

Now 91, Mr Churchill has gone to France with his wife Karin, 84.

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