Lost Boys is one of six video interviews I conducted with Westman veterans and edited for The Brandon Sun’s Knights of D-Day project. This project won an EPPY Award in 2017.

Les Downing volunteered to be in the first wave of soldiers to land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Luckily, he was held back and arrived in France one week after the pivotal battle — he still thinks of the comrades he lost during the war.