D-Day Veteran and Bergen-Belsen Liberator Don Sheppard Dies at 104

Sheppard, who landed on Juno Beach and helped liberate a concentration camp, leaves a legacy of bravery and reflection on the cost of war.

Don Sheppard was a dispatch rider for the Royal Engineers during WWII.
He landed on Normandy's Juno Beach on June 6, 1944, as part of the D-Day operations.
Sheppard later participated in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
He described the D-Day operation as a 'waste of life' but acknowledged its importance in ending the war.
Sheppard's only war injury was a minor cut, though a piece of shrapnel was discovered in his lung decades later.