Former paratrooper remembers wait for D-Day invasion after flying in on glider
by Eleanor Barlow
Jun 01, 2024
2 minutes
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As Allied troops were making their way over the Channel for the D-Day landings, Corporal Peter Belcher and his battalion were already in place in Normandy, waiting.
Mr Belcher, now 100, and his colleagues from the Airborne Regiment, 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry were flown in on gliders to capture vital bridges ahead of the seaborne invasion.
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