And while the 133,000 men involved in D-Day came from ... one of the first mass airborne assaults of the war. While it has been said that neither the commanders of the British Army nor the Royal ...

It’s no secret that D-Day, also known by its codename Operation ... “There were all sorts of guesses,” Private Wally Parr of the 6th British Airborne Division recalls in his interview.

D-Day veterans Bernard Morgan (left), 100 ... Shortly after midnight, three US and British airborne divisions, more than 23,000 men, took off to secure the flanks of the beaches.

D-Day veterans Bernard Morgan (left), 100 ... Shortly after midnight, three US and British airborne divisions, more than 23,000 men, took off to secure the flanks of the beaches.