Somewhere in that black night, eight hundred feet below on the green fields of Normandy, D-Day awaited the men of the 6th Airborne Division. Daniel Frank Lyons was born May 4th 1925, Wood Green ...

The Division made their first jump into combat in relief of allied forces trapped in the 'Battle of the Bulge.' Their second jump was in conjunction with the British 6th Airborne in the area of ...

40 - Len Payne, born in 1924, was in the 6th Airborne Division and is a D Day veteran: “The War came and I came along, 18, and I thought, I tell you what, I will volunteer for the Army and see ...

On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...

6th Airborne Division was given this task. It was later to be joined by Lord Lovat's Commando Brigade..These tasks included seizing Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery by 9 Para, whose guns were ...