‘The sea around was red with blood, but you had to keep going’

D-day veterans and world leaders have arrived in Portsmouth to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings amid a vast security operation to safeguard dignitaries including the Queen, Donald Trump and Theresa May.
 Amid the pomp and ceremony it was the stories of the real people who took part in D-Day that shone out during the commemoration in Portsmouth.