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Roy Blowers from Cotgrave is 90-years-old. He served on the HMS AJAX during the war. When a 1,000 bomb landed in engine room B it was towed to Gibraltar to be fixed. When it set sail again, the crew thought they were going home, but this wasn't the case. They ended up in Brooklyn , New York where the ship went into dock for further repairs. During this time, Roy struck up a friendship with a local woman. Roy was then trained for D-Day and landed at Gold Beach in Arromanches. He was in Germany on VE Day Image: Roy then, and now
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