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The 6th Airborne Divisional Engineers on D Day 1944
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:34 pm
by ken from worcester
more for you guys on the other side of the pond
thanx ken
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy/ ... ineers.htm
Re: The 6th Airborne Divisional Engineers on D Day 1944
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:04 pm
by Jonesy
Great link Ken.
For Christmas I was given the book 'Operation Tonga: The Glider Assault'. It briefly mentions the three Clarks which were borrowed from the US and flown onboard Horsa Gliders to Normandy. One glider crashed in the channel, one crashed on landing destroying the Clark but one landed and managed to get the Clark offloaded. It began clearing obstacles immediately.
I'm an aircraft engineer in the Royal Air Force where I'm based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Can you guess which airfield the three Horsa Gliders carrying the Clarks took off from? Yep, from Brize Norton. I guess owning a Clark was meant to be.
Neil.
Re: The 6th Airborne Divisional Engineers on D Day 1944
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:46 am
by welbike
Yes, nice stuff, keep it coming!
Alex