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D-Day vet describes his 1944 kit

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Harry Verlander was part of a Jedburgh team, three-man groups dropped behind enemy lines in 1944 as part of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France.

Speaking at the Carpetbagger and Northampton Aviation Museum, the World War II veteran talked reporter Mark Worthington through some of the kit he used at the time.

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