Major Austin 'Bobby' Joyce won a prestigious military medal - and featured in a comic - after he ran towards a heavily-defended stronghold in 1945 and threw a grenade through its window before his platoon took their captives
The medals of a D-Day hero whose exploits were immortalised in an adventure comic are now up for sale.
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