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| Tango01 | 24 Nov 2020 1:29 p.m. PST |
… stories of Second World War heroism, loss "David Lloyd Adlington is a century old, but his memories of the battles he fought in Italy in the Second World War, his brushes with death, are still vivid – too vivid. "The nights after the war were hard," said Mr. Adlington, who was the oldest of the 15 veterans who toured Italy with the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada as part of the 75th anniversary commemorations of the Italian campaign. The Canadians lost no battles, even if their progress through Sicily and up the Italian peninsula came at a horrific cost. "One of the things that got you was the screams of the wounded. They may have been gut shot 25 yards away and screaming as they died, and there was nothing you could do."…"
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