The first airborne operation in history took place this day in 1940 when Germany invaded the Netherlands. A year later The House of Commons in London was damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. Jospeh Buckley from Lisburn died in 1915 hit by shrapnel. Aged 19 it was the third time he had been injured. In 1944 Lieutenant.James Adair, a TCD graduate from Derry, died serving with the Gurkha Rifles at Imphal. On that same day Flying Officer Andrew Henry from Cookstown died over France, and Inniskilling Fusilier, Hugh Kelly from Derry, died in India. Today’s veteran is Walter Crozier from Bangor. He survived WW1 but his brother William did not. Walter’s four sons enlisted in the army in WW2. One did not return and another suffered thereafter from his experiences at Dunkirk. Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower comments on N Ireland’s role – “From here we started the long, hard march to Allied victory”
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