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"This is likely the only airport in the world which facilitates such a historic event," he told the BBC before the procession entered the airfield on Friday evening.

The air crews brought desirable goods or “cargo,” much of which was exchanged to the islanders for their labor in building the airfields.

Since he took power, Israel's military has repeatedly pounded Syrian weapons stores, airfields and other military sites left by the former regime, to avoid them falling into enemy hands, it says.

Strikes overnight killed two people in Ukraine, while Ukrainian drone attacks injured 10 and set an airfield on fire in Russia.

British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex airfields on 24 March 1945, to be dropped directly on top of the German lines at the River Rhine.