THE Yorkshire Air Museum will be holding its second Airborne Forces Day on Sunday, July 8, from 10am. I invite any of your readers who are veterans of the Parachute Regiment, Glider Pilot Regiment, Airborne Engineers or many other infantry and specialist units who wore the famous red beret to come and meet hundreds of their old comrades.

The museum is a charity and is also the only Allied Air Forces Memorial in Europe. We are grateful to the Glider Pilot, Parachute and Airborne Museum at Arnhem for their tremendous support in preparing for this event again this year. The day will include the Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain memorial flight, gliders, parachutists, displays, drum head service and march pasts, plus military bands and much more. With help from the Royal Engineers we will be undertaking a full-size re-enactment of the famous storming of Pegasus Bridge on D-Day 1944.

Former Red Devil or not, you will be welcomed.

Ian Reed,

Museum Director,

Yorkshire Air Museum,

Halifax Way, Elvington, York.

Updated: 10:51 Thursday, April 19, 2001