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Radio London,9 mins
'My dad nearly died on D-Day...in Essex'
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On the day troops from Britain, the US and Canada were landing on beaches in northern France during World War Two, a secret military unit somehow managed to escape with their lives during a self-inflicted rocket onslaught - in Essex. Eighty years on from Paul Roberson's "incredibly lucky escape" in Shoeburyness on 6 June 1944 - otherwise known as D-Day - James Roberson, 70, has been telling the Â鶹Éç’s Harry Low the story of the bizarre incident in which an accidental discharge somehow failed to cause serious injury.
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