Monday, January 28, 2019

Parachutists to fill skies over Normandy on 75th anniversary of D-day

Wartime aircraft will fly in 6 June event commemorating day that turned tide of war

The skies over the UK and Normandy will be filled with wartime Dakota aircraft as hundreds of parachutists take part in a mass airdrop to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in June.

The plans, unveiled by Imperial War Museums (IWM), are part of a programme on an “unprecedented scale” for the commemoration of the greatest seaborne invasion in history, to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation, on 6 June 1944.

Related: D-day veteran, 89, who ran off to France for anniversary: 'I'd do it again'

Visit IWM Duxford, Churchill War Rooms and HMS Belfast for D-day 75 in June 2019

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