How WW2's D-Day began with adeath-defying mission | BBC News

Eighty years ago on 6 June, D-Day, the largest land,air and naval operation in history was unleashed to fightthe Nazis - led by a group of British troops whocrash-landed in Normandy in six flimsy gliders.

In 1984, the man who led this mission gave anextraordinary account to the BBC.