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Jack was a pathfinder. With 156 Squadron he took part in D-Day. His target was one of the massive

gun emplacements at the key Longue battery. As he says: I was in the front turret when I spotted a

twin-engine aircraft not far away. I had the guns trained on it when I realised it looked like an Oxford. As

I hesitated, it suddenly dived into the clouds. When we discovered on landing that we had taken part in