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Originally Posted by sapper740
Great picture Boddie, thank you! Did it mention anything about the units that used that Clark-Air? I know the 286th Field Park Co., R.E. landed in Normandy at 0335 hours with two dozers and proceeded to clear the LZ of crashed gliders and other impedimentia so as to allow the 6th Airlanding Brigade and their Divisional troops access. Derek.
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No mate, no mention of units. That Horsa Mk I is a training mock-up fuselage I think, not an operational glider. I have seen other similar pictures of it being used to test loading weights and other physical sizing issues.
Edit: link added:
http://www.remuseum.org.uk/campaign/...aign_6adiv.htm
14-03-08, 22:37
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