A “one in a million” D-Day veteran who flew into Normandy on a military glider and survived being shot by a tank has died at home aged 100. Bill Gladden, of Haverhill, Suffolk, was just 20 ...

The gliders were Hadrians ... I like to think he played a small but important part in the success of the Normandy landings. SIR – In June, 80 years ago, I was a 12-year-old schoolboy living ...