D-DAY - BRITISH FORCES DURING THE INVASION OF NORMANDY 6 JUNE 1944 - Part of 6th Airlanding Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, waiting to leave RAF Tarrant Rushton on the evening of 6 June 1944. On the runway are Hamilcar heavy gliders, preceded by two Horsa troop-carrying gliders, while parked on each side of them are Handley Page Halifax glider-tugs of Nos. 298 and 644 Squadrons RAF Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, Sqdn, 113, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, Sqdn, 184, Royal Air Force, Expeditionary Air Wing, 34, British Army, 6th Airborne Division

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