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We gave everything but were called 'D-Day dodgers'
Jack Hearn, from Northumberland fought in the WW2 Battle of Monte Cassino and is returning to Italy for events to mark its 80th anniversary.
The 100-year-old and is one of just a handful of veterans well enough to travel.
Despite the deaths of thousands of soldiers in the campaign, they were sometimes called D-Day dodgers because they were not involved in the Normandy landings a month later in June 1944.
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