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Originally Posted by pooroldjoe
As has already been mentioned, we must not forget that all the services were involved, Navy, Army, Air Force, and especially the Merchant Navy who's contribution to the War is so often overlooked and unrecognised.
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May I put in a word here for the Royal Fleet Auxilliary. My grandfather was a Captain on a "Fleet Oiler" and his was actually the first RFA ship to visit all five of the D-Day beaches.
He sometimes used to say that whilst the "real Navy" did all the fighting, without the RFA they wouldn't be going very far to do it!