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Jack Warner: 'D-Day mission was a disaster'

As a 20-year-old, Jack Warner was tasked with flying over Normandy on D-Day to attack German gun emplacements ahead of the biggest seaborne invasion in history.

Jack, from Huddersfield, served as a flight engineer during World War Two.

"If the pilot got shot, I would have to dodge into the seat and take his place," he said.

But Jack said things did not go quite as planned in the early hours of 6 June, 1944.

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