Tributes are being paid to Lt Col David Hamilton, who was based at RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire.
The last surviving pilot to have taken part in a mission that began the allied invasion of Europe during World War Two has died aged 102.
On 5 June 1944, aged 21, he took part in his first combat mission, dropping elite paratroopers into German-occupied France to secure landing areas ahead of the main D-Day invasion. During the mission, he flew 50ft above the English Channel to avoid enemy radar and returned to RAF North Witham with more than 200 holes in his aircraft from anti-aircraft and small arms fire.
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