Use of emblem is a show of insensitivity

It is difficult to imagine the terror of young Allied soldiers as they sat in
the darkness, waiting to board the landing crafts on the coastline of
northern France on June 6, 1944.

Operation Overlord included the biggest
seaborne invasion in history.

The Nazis had extensive defensive works,
concrete gun emplacements and had placed hundreds of mines along the coast.


It was a pivotal moment in the Second World War.



One of the Allied soldiers was Stanley Hollis, a sergeant-major with the Green
Howards regiment.

He had grown up in Middlesbrough and worked in his dad’s
fish and c…