'It's important to remember ordinary fighting men'
After Mr Neal's brother died, he used that research and his own to tell their uncle's story in a book By Glider to Normandy ...
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Allied Air Assault: The Guns of Operation Varsity
The original plan for Varsity involved three airborne divisions: the British 6th Airborne Division, veterans of the Overlord operation in Normandy, the U.S. 17th Airborne Division, recently ...
The untold story of the battle that helped end WW2 in Europe
We had a very high casualty rate." At least 1,070 members of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne ...
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From D-Day to Berlin Gallery
On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...