D-Day veteran who flew into Normandy on a military glider dies aged 100
D-Day veteran Bill Gladden, who has died at the age of 100 (Family photo/ PA)
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 years old when he arrived on a Hamilcar glider carrying a tank and six motorbikes on June 6, 1944.
