IN his article on Saturday Anthony Osborne quotes Ken Head as saying " . . . that at last the invasion of Europe had started'' when describing Dakota aircraft making their way to Normandy.
He should, of course, have said that the invasion of Normandy, France, had started.
The invasion of Europe commenced with the assault on the Island of Sicily on July 10 1943, almost a year previously, in which 2,590 vessels took part.
The mainland of Europe was subject to a minor attack by the British 13th Corps across the Straits of Messina on September 3 1943, with the main landings in the Bay of Salerno on the 9th, carried out by the 10th British Corps and the 6th USA Corps.
MR G R Bray
York Road
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