Jim Wallwork

[smudgersmith218]

Gents,

In todays Telegraph.

Jim Wallwork, who has died aged 93, was the pilot of the first glider to land in the coup-de-main on the bridges across the river Orne and the Caen Canal; catapulted through the Perspex canopy on touching down, he was able to claim to be the first Allied soldier to set foot on French soil during the D-Day landings.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... lwork.html

RIP

Steve