‘The sea around was red with blood, but you had to keep going’: D-day veterans attend their last big gathering
As ceremonies mark 75th anniversary of Allied landings in Normandy, two veterans tell their tales
Ken Peppercorn almost didn’t make it to Gold beach. He fell off the ramp of his landing craft into an underwater shell hole. “I nearly went under. I was loaded up with all the equipment – hand grenades in my pockets, magazines in my pouches, and everything else I could carry.”
The sea around him was red with blood. “It was quite a mess, but you just had to keep going.” He managed to surface and get to the beach. “We were under fire but I scrambled up the dunes and found a shell crater to shelter in. I was
