Details of this year's commemoration on Sunday 24th March can be found here:- Operation Varsity Memorial Service - 24/03/2019 10:45:00 Thanks...
I have been trying to establish with some certainty the circumstances of Staff Sergeant Wicks drop in a Hamilcar possibly chalk 280 which suffered...
Details of this year's commemoration on Saturday 24th March 2018 at Marks Hall can be found here:- Operation Varsity Commemoration 2018 -...
In Alan Cooper’s book Wot! No Engines F/Sgt. John Crane, an RAF Glider pilot, identifies himself as the man on the left of the Hamminkeln sign...
570 squadron photograph taken before D-Day, has been annotated with the help of Arnhem Pilot book and the Squadron's Battle Order from the...
Details of this year's commemoration on Friday 24th March 2017 at Marks Hall can be found here:- Operation Varsity Commemoration | Marks Hall...
Have just looked up the report for 315th Troop Carrier Group who flew serial B-6 for Varsity for one of the group members and emailed it to him......
Has anyone ever seen any of these? Pre or post invasion? Has anyone been to or contacted the archive in Scotland I think it is that has aerial...
The Operation Varsity Remembrance Service 24 March 2016 will be at held at Wattisham Airfield this year not Earls Colne. This is an Active...
8th Parachute Battalion veteran Gerald Clarke has been awarded the Legion of Honour. He retells the story of being in an aircraft that was shot...
Can anyone give me any information about Sid Dadd who was a second pilot on a Hamilcar on each of these operations. I have a letter from him...
Hi Can anyone recommend any memoirs or first hand accounts from members of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry which...
Whilst visiting the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery earlier this month, a group of people approached myself and another guy I was talking to. They...
In Memoriam - Lt. Robert Stoddart Preston KIA 24 March 1945 Operation Varsity 18 Platoon B Company 2 OXF & BUCKS Coup de Main, Glider CN2 Time of...
With the 70th Anniversary of the Rhine Crossing fast upon us I thought this segment from Canadian Army Newsreel No. 67 might be of interest. Many...
I'm reading the Tim Saunders Pen and Fraud sorry Sword book on Varsity and he said that the OBLI memorial in Hamminkeln has moved....The book was...
All, After much searching I cannot seem to located any pictures from Shepherds Grove for Operation Varsity. Are there any or are they just...
All, Wondering if anyone might be able to help me pad out some info on F/O Andrew (Andy) Harley who was an RAF glider pilot on Op Varsity. I'm...
Hi, This is my first post here and I hope I've got it in the right section. I'm researching my great uncle, Captain Peter Terrey Wykes. He was a...
Earlier this month, my new book was published. Battle of Burp Gun Corner Walka Publishing The battle was fought by Glider Pilots of the 435th...
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