Alex Sabga-Brady will be joined by fellow cast members for the charity jump.
A British star of the war drama Band Of Brothers has said he hopes to honour the legacy of the soldier he played in the series when he joins fellow cast members for a parachute jump over Normandy as part of the D-Day commemorations.
He told the PA news agency: “I wasn’t a trained actor, I’d come into it through a friend of mine who suggested I go for a casting for it as they wanted some guys that had military experience and guys that didn’t and I was in the cadets. He said: “Meeting the guys that he actually served with, that really gave me something tangible and all the cast something tangible to work with. And unfortunately, none of the guys from Easy Company are now surviving, which is leading us to what we are doing.
He said: “We trained with US paratroopers from an all-airborne battalion and these guys put us through our paces learning, basically, to keep yourself alive by jumping out of a plane and then do it as safely as possible.
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