A VETERAN repeated the jump he did in 1944.
Jock Hutton, 84, dropped in to 3 Para’s camp at Ranville as part of a display by the Red Devils freefall team.
He said: “The view hasn’t changed much and it really brought back memories. It was absolutely fantastic to jump again.”
Mr Hutton, a mortar man, dropped in to the village on D-Day and was involved in “a continuous flow of fighting”.
He was wounded in the stomach by shrapnel two weeks later.
He added: “My lasting memory of Normandy is after I was wounded when I was helping look after more serious cases, and that brought home the absolute horror of war.”
Mr Hutton, who lives in Kent, served with Parachute Regiment until 1954 and then joined the Rhodesian army.
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