Central News East: 01.06.1989: Parachute Veterans

Summary

Phil Bayles report about a reunion of American parachute veterans in Leicester forty five years after they took part in the Normandy landings.

Year:

1989

Duration:

0:02:15

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

Betacam SP

Description

Interviews with American veterans Bill Tucker and Jack Sneiderman about the D-Day landings in the Second World War. Phil Bayles also talks to American men who had married women from Leicester that they met during the war. Shots of commemoration service held in Victoria Park in Leicester with men from the 82nd Airborne Division.


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