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
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Steve
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