Two veterans reflect on D-Day 'hell' - 75 years on

Denis Rose, 93, is from West Kirby on the Wirral.

Jack Cunnane, from Bury, is 95.

Both men played vital roles on D-Day - the 6th of June 1944 - as the Allies landed on the Normandy beaches.

Jack served with the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers and landed on Sword Beach.

His role was crucial in making sure tanks, jeeps, and a host of military equipment made it off the beach and into Northern France.

He had to repair vehicles which wouldn't start because sea water had got into the engines. But he had to do this while under constant shelling.

The mechanic made it off Sword Beach and, despite being badly injured by shrapnel in the weeks after D Day, found himself in Northern Germany when the war ended.

He plans to return to France for the 75th anniversary of D Day.

Denis Rose served with the Royal Navy and was assigned to work aboard numerous merchant ships.

In the early hours of the sixth of June, Denis was sailing across the channel to France on the Queen's Cross Tug, pulling a section of Mulberry Harbour- a portable harbour to help offload cargo onto the beaches.

Denis had already lost his brother Peter, who flew with Bomber Command in the RAF, and who had died on a mission over Hungary, aged just 19. He fears the sacrifices made are being forgotten: