Stansted Airport’s role in the D-Day landings is being remembered as millions of people across the world commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion. On June 6, 1944, troops from the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland joined forces to retake occupied Europe from the Nazis. The airport, then known as Washington Field, played a significant part in the Second World War and no more so than on that momentous day. As the ninth largest US Air Force base in East Anglia, the …