Thread for information on USAAF Troop Carrier Groups for Operation varsity 24th March 1945 Flight Roster 15th Troop Carrier Squadron - 61st...
Was Major Eric Henry Steele-Baume, 2nd Ic 7 Para bn during the Normandy campaign the same as Lt Col Eric Henry Steele-Baume who was GSO (AIR) with...
Hi. Been looking through my local newspaper archives and wondered if anyone could pinpoint which Battalion this chap was with? attached photo of...
Philip Ward, paratrooper who fought in the break-out from Normandy in 1944 – obituary He took part in Operation Varsity, the largest single-day...
Hello all, I am hoping somebody may be able to assist me. I am looking for a list of men that participated in the coup du main in D-Day....
[IMG] Lt. Shane Brendan Eithna Kearney, MiD 7th Parachute Battalion killed in action on Operation Varsity (324298) Lt Shane Brendan Kearney was...
Award The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Major Robert Macfie Marquis, RAMC H.Q. 6th Airborne Division 9P/291139) This officer has...
Award Military Medal Guardsman John 'Jack' Dow Simpson, 2nd Bn Coldstream Guards (2658349) During the evening attack on LONG STOP HILL on 24th...
Award Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm Pte. Stanley John Horton, 13th Parachute Battalion (14654479) Pte. HORTON was a signaller during the...
Award Military Medal Cpl. Charles Bryan, RAMC attached 13th Parachute Battalion (7360233) During 3rd January 1945, 13th Bn Parachute Regiment...
Award Military Medal BSM. Richard Barrett "B" Troop, No.1 Battery, 1st Airlanding Light Regiment (6769165) This Warrant Officer was Troop...
Award Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II with palm and Croix de Guerre 1940 with palm Capt. Wilfred Davison, 13th Parachute Battalion (324280)...
Award Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm (Belgium) Cpl. Frederick Gilbert Burton Eales, 13th Parachute Battalion (5631068) Sjt. Eales was wounded...
Hi there, my maternal grandad Harold Raymond Beggs was in the 1st Battalion RUR service number 701176. He enlisted on 04/03/1932 when he was 16...
Award Military Medal Pte. James Henry Cooke 2nd Bn Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (14318025) On the night of 4th January 1945 Pte....
Award Military Cross Major Herbert Neville Whitmee, 86th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery attached 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division...
Hi everyone ! You certainly know the intersection now called « carrefour du 9e bataillon », in Gonneville en Auge (attached picture of the...
Hi there, I recently went to the bridge over the Dives River near which Horsa number 4 landed by mistake just after midnight on june 6th 1944...
Hello Everyone ! In 1944 my family owned the Chateau d’Escoville. Recently, I red in the 2nd Ox and Bucks war diary that the chateau should have...
Helloo, Recently I looked into how various 6th Airborne units made use of the Ecarde Quarries above Ranville. My slim findings were stuck in an...
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