Wednesday 03 Oct 2012 @ 07:05
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Countess unveils memorial to wartime secret heroes
An elite group of men who paved the way for success on D-Day have been honoured with an imposing monument on Hayling Island in Hampshire.
Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, and Major General Ed Davis, Commandant General Royal Marines and Commander Amphibious Forces, led tributes to veterans of the Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP), who carried out top-secret missions in the run-up to the Normandy invasion, after the unveiling of a granite monument by Countess Mountbatten of Burma on Friday, 28 September.
