Designated Drop News Today

as frank gardner reports. war planes from another time. memories from 80 years ago. today, a chance to honor those men and women who took part in d—day, the operation that helped end the second world war. service chiefs, prime ministers past and present, the royalfamily and of course, the veterans. roy haywood was 19 on that day, a trooper in the sherwood rangers. i landed in on the evening of d—day, and three weeks later i was so badly damaged that they had to amputate both my leg...

Overhead, and the crowds are in all of these vintage aircraft and vehicles. they are really enjoying soaking up the atmosphere and trying to have a piece of that themselves, by getting dressed up and remembering what happened. the mood here is much less sombre, today, this afternoon, there were more than 300 members of the british belgian canadian and us military, who took part in a parachute display. this was a designated drop back in 1944, and the idea of this was to commemorate the role of th...