I WAS quite impressed on reading the extensive coverage given to the 71st anniversary of D-Day on  June 6, 1944. I was serving in the RAF as a radar mechanic at a station near Dover at the time, but very little news leaked out in advance of the operation.
But we certainly knew it was coming.
“Mum’s the word” in wartime was certainly the order of the day.
During a spot of leave at my parents’ home in Newport, I came across, on one of my cycle rides, this huge build-up of military vehicles in Forge Lane – hardly a lane today – and put two and two together.
 
Cyril Highman,
Vancouver Drive,
Newport