89 Year-Old Veteran Parachutes Back Into Normandy

An 89-year-old British D-Day veteran took part in a tandem jump with the Red Devils from around 5,000ft in the skies of Normandy in front of the Prince of Wales.

Scotsman Jock Hutton was one of the first Allied soldiers to land in Nazi-occupied western Europe in the early hours of June 6, 1944.

He jumped on to the same drop zone his comrades did 70 years ago with 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion to secure Ranville, the first village liberated on D-Day.

Charles watched from outside a military tent as Mr Hutton leapt from a civilian Skyvan aircraft on to a patch of land a few yards in front of him in a tandem jump with Colour Sergeant Billy Blanchard.

After arriving on terra firma, Mr Hutton, who lives in Maidstone, Kent, joked that his only disappointment was the lack of Calvados on landing.

The Stirling-born former paratrooper said: "It was very humbling and I'm highly privileged to be here."

Asked to describe how he felt, he said: "Poetry." He went on: "I was very relaxed with all my companions in the aircraft, but I wanted to get out of that door."