Ministers defend D-Day 80 parachute drop plans amid plane shortage fears - Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said 181 ...
Soldiers re-enacted the poignant salute to the drop behind enemy lines that marked the start of the invasion of Nazi-occupied ...
Defence officials have been scrambling around to secure more aircrafts to take take part in the mass parachute drop for the 80th anniversary of D-Day following a shortage. The shortage of planes ...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said 181 parachuters will take part – the same number as those involved in the operation in the location on D-Day. Published May 20 A re-enactment parachute jump ...