A recent visit to the Pegasus Bridge museum near Caen in Normandy, France brought back memories of an experience with a HORSA glider in either the autumn of 1943 or the spring of 1944. Peterborough ...
World War II glider pilots from across the nation will meet in Lubbock Friday and Saturday to see again the flat terrain of the South Plains Army Air Field where they trained in the early 1940s for ...
On the 6th of June 1944, D-Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That day, over 130,000 Allied soldiers stormed the ...
A memorial sculpture which commemorates servicemen who played a crucial role in the D-Day landings has been unveiled at a former RAF base. The sculpture was inspired by the wooden Horsa gliders, an ...
On June 5, 1944 — my 20th birthday — I and my regiment, the 325th Glider Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division, were awaiting orders to load out British Horsa gliders for the invasion of France. The ...
AS THE Normandy invasion began, Frank Agoglia crash-landed in a glider behind German lines. “I was there. There was no turning back,” said Agoglia, now 90, a retired NYPD officer who grew up in Park ...
BROCKTON — In the spring of 1944, Kenneth Gillpatrick was in the Army, stationed in southern England. He remembers moving around a lot, and not always being told where he was or where he was going.
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When the Allies crossed France in June 1944, one of the big times during the European Theatre of World War II, they faced the ...
It's been 80 years today since the Allies began their D-Day invasion in Normandy, France during World War II. While many Ross Countians served in the military during the war, several were lost on that ...
MEET veteran Second World War glider pilots and members of the Glider Pilot Regiment Society at a Chalk Living History Group even this weekend. The display at Bournemouth’s Cumberland Hotel will ...
The Prince of Wales joined a Second World War veteran in the cockpit of a replica glider plane as he toured the southern Netherlands to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden. Charles ...
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