Honour Restored
Daily Mirror|June 3, 2020
Second World War vet gets new medals after theft of originals
Lucy Thornton
Honour Restored

A second World War veteran who survived a kamikaze attack was presented with new medals in an emotional ceremony after the originals were stolen.

Denis Gregory, 93, was on board the aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable after it was struck by a kamikaze pilot’s plane near the Japanese island of Okinawa on April 1, 1945.

This story is from the June 3, 2020 edition of Daily Mirror.

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