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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 legs below the knee. i returned home eventually, and i have to say that i always considered myself one ...

Remember the role they played. another notable fact about here is the mulberry harbour is here. this was meant to be a temporaryjetty put out at sea you can still see the concrete blocks and these were particularly significant because they had the allied forces bring extra material in and support their campaign of normandy. earlier on this afternoon there was a parachute jump this afternoon there was a parachute jump in an area close by were hundreds took part. there were 300 members of british, belgian, canadian and us military who took part in thejump. it was in a designated drop zone on the...