The best of the best , all of them .Thank you for sharing your thoughts and memories at such a sad time.
My dad was of the same generation and served in Normandy, Belgium and Germany followed by a stint in Palestine before he was demobbed. My mum carried on working as a wages clerk at the heavily bombed Vosper Thornycroft shipyard in Southampton throughout the Blitz. So it wasn’t just the men who showed great fortitude.
We quite literally owe that generation our freedom. RIP to them all.