London Cabbies Take D Day Veterans Back To Normandy | Forces TV

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Almost 100 D-Day veterans have been back on the beaches of Normandy to remember fallen comrades thanks to a group of London taxi drivers. 73 years after the landings, the Taxi Charity has arranged for 90 black cabs trips to travel to Pegasus Bridge, the key canal crossing captured by 6th Airborne Division. The charity has been ferrying old soldiers to World War Two battlegrounds since 1948.

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Interviewed in this report are the vice-chairman for the Taxi Charity For Military Veterans Ian Parsons, taxi driver Peter Waterfield, D-Day Royal Navy veteran Alec Knibbs and D-Day Airborne Veteran Roy Maxwell.



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