Holly thank you for all these images! I just tuned into the memorial on Sky.
I wasn't born then, but my father and mother told me about it.
Briefly, my father, who was trained on heavy artillery, was given a parachute and sent up in a glider to land behind the beaches. His glider was shot down and he was wounded. He crawled through a wooded area to a "house" which happened to be a Red Cross station!