PARACHUTISTS dropped from the sky over Normandy yesterday to remember British servicemen who made the first landings on D-Day, 65 years ago.

BILL FITZMAURICE saw the tank thundering towards his outfit and heard his own voice join a chorus of warning cries as its guns began firing.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will lay a wreath at the tomb of an unknown German soldier during this weekend’s 60th anniversary commemorations of the Allied D-Day invasion in Normandy.