There was a driver at Kings Cross that was a para during WW11 and served at Arnhem, which we talked about on a few occasions...
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A BBC journalist who was with the british para's at Arnhem and experienced the bitter fighting at first hand once said that if you met any man in a pub who fought at Arnhem buy him a pint!
I certainly sat there in awe, when he was telling me what he did, train driving was very tame, after knocking out a machine gun nest then using the gun on it's former owners, he then said " without that gun none of us would be alive today"
