Michael Portillo meets 100-year-old WWII veteran who survived 16 days stuck at sea

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Michael Portillo meets 100-year-old WWII veteran who survived 16 days stuck at sea

Norman Gibson was excited when he enlisted in the Merchant Navy in 1942, eager to explore the world and carve out his own stories of heroism. A former Maidstone Grammar School pupil, Norman never imagined that by 1944 he would be serving aboard SS Fort Buckingham in the Indian Ocean. That's where tragedy struck on 20 January 1944, when the ship was torpedoed by the German submarine U-188. Unable to launch a lifeboat,…