D-Day vet jumps into Normandy

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D-Day vet jumps into Normandy

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"Jock Hutton surveys the wheat field in which, 70 years ago, he fell to earth. It was a moonlit night and his descent lasted but a few minutes.

"'We were jumping from 500 feet so there was no point in a reserve chute,' he remembers. 'If the main hadn’t opened – well - goodnight.'

"The Scotsman was 19, a member of 13th Battalion the Parachute Regiment, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, and he and his comrades were spearheading the Allied assault on German-occupied Europe. D Day was hardly an hour old when John James McDonald Hutton joined the fight ..."

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