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COSTA BLANCA’S DDay Hero
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QUESADA’S Joseph Billet, known locally as “Joe, The Cat Man,” hasn’t always led a leisurely life of retirement in the sun, indeed quite the opposite.
As a 15 year old in 1942, the teenager joined the Merchant Navy as he sought out his very first taste of ‘grown up’ adventure. And it came to him soon enough as on Tuesday, 6 June 1944, D
Day, Joe was working aboard a merchant vessel carrying troops as they embarked on the Allied invasion of Normandy. Seventy five years later he was privileged to return to Normandy as part of the Voyage
of Remembrance, organized by The Royal British Legion, for 300 D-Day Veterans, who were each accompanied by a family member or carer. Continued on Page 4