Harry Read says he isn’t “the slightest bit nervous” about jumping out of the plane as part of a re-enactment next week of the allied forces’ paratrooper invasion.
It was a different story the first time Read did it, on June 6, 1944, as part of the invasion that marked the beginning of the end of the war with Nazi Germany. “I had to come to terms with the fact that the chances of me coming back were not very high,” he recalls.“I saw only two or three dropping over the roof but we knew this was it,” he says.“We kids were like a mascot, a family pet,” he adds. “The Americans would feed us.”“We jumped into a ditch,” he recalls. “But no, it was the American paratroopers.”
CTV News will have special coverage of D-Day ceremonies on June 5 at 9:30 a.m. ET and on June 6 beginning at 5 a.m. ET.
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