My Grandpa and one brother also 'missed' D-Day due to already being in combat in Italy; Grandpa was a radioman in a tank & one of his brothers was in the First Special Service Force clearing Nazi's out of mountain strongholds to let his brother and everyone else through to free Rome; sadly, they both passed many years ago. Their third brother was a telegrapher who would be locked in rooms under guard to perform high level comm's and encryption, he just passed away this past January at the age of 94. He'd tell a story of when he was informed that the Germans broke a code they were using and he had a time frame of something like 10 hours to learn the new code, which was quite elaborate. Being late to the war due to his youth, he was also there for the post-war mop-up and war crimes trials. He mentioned how there was a firing squad kept rather busy just adjacent his office.
RIP Uncle Wally:
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