My late uncle , Frank Hendry , was a glider pilot in the Rhine crossing and survived the experience, leading a full life snd dying at the age of 85.
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Shows what's possible when enough resources and assets are marshalled together.
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They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. 🌺
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Drove past the Berlin Airlift Memorial on the A5 outside Frankfurt Airport last night, a place where I used to see Hercules and other US Transport planes lined up and parked, the memorial is flanked by a C46 I think it is, and a C47, great planes and brave men who flew them! 👍🏽🙏🏼💪🏼 Never forget, Celer et Aud
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Did a combat drop onto Grenada in 83 for Urgent Fury, but we only dropped 6 companies or so. It was rather zero dark-thirty when we did it and there wasn't much of a view. Course, we were rather busy securing the airfield, but when 82nd came in it was full light and they only dropped a brigade and that was a sight. Nothing like Varsity though, but still it was an awesome sight. Didn't have long to admire the view because there was still work to do. Cheers from a former Ranger.
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Hi. The Paras getting their deserved goods after enduring Market Garden . Great pictures. Stay safe and democratic, greetings from Germany
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Using elite paratroopers for the job they were trained for. Excellent. Better than wasting them as regular infantry as in the Ardennes.
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6th airborne of the uk . 1st airborne went to arnhem the previous September.
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I had not realised that large scale airborne was used beyond D-Day and MG. Germany could never have successfully invaded UK; they hadn't the materiel or comprehension IMHO
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All that so doctors and engineers can "enrich" Europe today. Sweet.
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British fought so hard their brothers in WW1 and WW2 to be replaced by ugu-bugu 80 years later😂
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Imperial War Museums
Allied Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota) fly in tight formation during the operation to drop the 1st Allied Airborne Army on the far side of the Rhine, March 1945.
The clip comes from an episode of 'War Pictorial News'. Find it in full here: film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/798
Film: IWM WPN 243
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