Paras drop in to salute D-Day hero on his 101st birthday
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Longest Day is an epic war movie about the D-Day Landings. It won two Oscars and had a stellar cast including Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, and Henry Fonda.
It features the first day of the invasion of Normandy in 1944 with glider borne troops taking and defending bridges over the River Orne and Caen Canal.
The latter was later known as Pegasus Bridge and veteran Peter Belcher was one of the real-life heroes who took it. Peter was enlisted as a paratrooper in the Airborne Regiment, 4th Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and fought throughout the Second World War.
He served a total of 12 years from 1937-49 before being demobbed. He served in 17 countries and was awarded six military medals, including the illustrious Legion d’Honneur.
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