A 97-YEAR-old WWII veteran parachuted out over the same Dutch city he was captured in 75 years ago and touched down to admit his jump left him feeling "absolutely terrified."
After landing Mr Cortmann, still wearing his red flight suit and returning to the area for the first time since the war, waved to onlookers and a mass of cameras from his wheelchair as he took his place for a memorial service on the heath. Mr Cortmann's friend and ex-paratrooper Gary Haughton, 52, who lives in Aberdeen, said the Prince had congratulated the veteran and said: "He puts me to shame, I should have been up there with him."
But once on the ground, the Allied troops met with stubborn German resistance in and around the city of Arnhem and their advance stalled on a bridge there spanning the River Rhine in a battle immortalized in the book and Hollywood film "A Bridge Too Far."
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