Ministers defend D-Day 80 parachute drop plans amid plane shortage fears - Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said 181 ...
Defence officials have been scrambling around to secure more aircrafts to take take part in the mass parachute drop for the 80th anniversary of D-Day following a shortage. The shortage of planes ...
Plans for a mass parachute drop over Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day have had to be scaled back – because cutbacks have left the MoD without enough planes. The Parachute ...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said 181 parachuters will take part – the same number as those involved in the operation in the location on D-Day. Published May 20 A re-enactment parachute jump ...