Hearts, say, fit: officer leads (5,4)

See 22

Band that's tough is flipping fresh (5)

Secretly at home, soldier (2,7)

Top revolver (7)

Relative aboard vessel, drifter (7)

One with endless despair in White House (5)

Lament, from this day even, bearing loss (3,3,6)

Compare similar types caught by mine, killed when thrown back (5)

Might one be posted to cover defensive walls amidst rifle shot? (7)

Character on 28 in band, one ultimately doomed (7,1,4)

See 19

Recollection of first of explosions sounding intolerable, over Normandy? (5)

Noted German advance finally stops — here? (5)

This sign marking 24 across partially coinciding with 28 (9)

Starts to delight Jack in drinking local spirit (6)

Line entering trap on 28 — experience missed 19 24 (7,3)

One overwhelmed by 28 horror ultimately — one so young (6)

Die: finished in resting place (8)

Mark fighter for country (4)

Weapon ending in dirt on 28, work for evacuation? (8)

Where D-Day remembered in the requiem (4)

Runner, very strong little boat (5)

Character standing upright in battered line: stage set (10)

Belief: it could go either way (5)

Main elegy almost unnatural for loyal old chap (8)

Army getting to grips with something raw — that's hairy (8)

Pale fashion abandoned (6)

Supporting other ranks, I issue prayer (6)

Brass shown by neighbour emerging from the depths? (4)

Hurt in store, heading off (4)

Objectives in decisive operation achieved, heroes every one in conclusion (4)