Colin Leo Bliss
Major Colin Leo Bliss (27 April 1907 – 10 July 1944) was a pioneer of operational parachuting. Known in the forces as Charles Bliss, his early dangerous work parachuting from low flying planes with heavy equipment strapped to his back helped design the parachutes that were later used as part of the airborne D-Day Landings. On a visit to the 6th Airborne Division prior to the D-Day Landings, King George VI asked who was responsible for the ingenuity behind the parachute training and the General explained it was Bliss. Bliss was subsequently introduced to the King by whom he was congratulated.

Bliss's obituary by the writer and journalist Leonard Mosley in "The Daily Sketch" described Bliss as ‘one of the bravest, and most reckless of all the men who landed in France on D-Day. He was the greatest paratrooper of them all. Ask any of the men who went in with the Paratroop Corps, British, Canadian or American, and they will confirm that’. As a Correspondent with the Allied Forces, Mosley had accompanied Bliss and the Battalion during the D-Day Landings, parachuting into France with a typewriter strapped to his back.
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