Former flight sergeant John Haddock, 102, said: “If the veterans on D-Day had taken all this time, then France may never have been liberated at all.
The RAF hero applied for the medal last year, but heard nothing until The Sun intervened on his behalf in October.
D-DAY heroes have taken aim at France for making them wait years for their long-promised World War Two medals.
Seven of the claims date so far back that UK officials have lost track of when they were first made.
Another 15 applications are stuck in the French system, The Sun can reveal.
