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- Unpublished shot of a tank on the Ponte Grande
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The stories behind photographs relating to Operation Ladbroke, the invasion of Sicily and gliders in WW2. Also previously unseen photographs, rare photographs, new identifications of well-known photographs and analysis of photographs.
Photo Story: SAS SRS & Airborne – Agony & Ecstasy in the Med
While men of the SAS SRS assaulted a deadly gun battery, glider troops drowned in Operation Ladbroke. Returning later, the SRS remembered both the excitement and the horror. There is a well-known photograph of SAS troopers of Major Paddy Mayne’s … Continue reading →
Posted in All Posts, Operation Ladbroke - Sicily 1943, Photo Stories, SAS Special Raiding Squadron (SRS) in Sicily
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Tagged Blair Paddy Mayne, Cape Murro di Porco, Gliders in sea - Sicily, Operation Husky Sicily 1943, Operation Ladbroke Sicily 1943, SAS Special Raiding Squadron (SRS), Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) in Sicily, Wilf Oldham
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South Staffords near Syracuse – rare photograph
South Staffords glider troops photographed near Syracuse on the day after the epic battle for the Ponte Grande bridge – a unique picture, a dramatic story. Photographs of airborne troops taken during Operation Ladbroke, the glider assault that began the Allied invasion … Continue reading →
Unpublished shot of a tank on the Ponte Grande
A previously unseen film shows what the heroic defence of the Ponte Grande bridge by British glider troops was all about – tanks and vehicles crossing, headed into Syracuse. This is the remarkable story of how that footage came to be taken. … Continue reading →
The Lost Photos of Operation Ladbroke
Somewhere somebody has an album with some unique, unpublished photographs of Operation Ladbroke in it. Historians have seen them, but nobody knows where they are now. A plea for bringing them to light. I’m hoping readers may be able to … Continue reading →
Galpin’s Glider – New photo of Operation Ladbroke’s star landing
Staff Sergeant Dennis Galpin’s glider landing during Operation Ladbroke was famously perfect. But where was it exactly? And is that his glider in the well-known photo? There is a well-known IWM photograph of a Horsa glider taken in Sicily after Operation Ladbroke (see … Continue reading →
Posted in All Posts, Battlefield Visits, Glider Stories, Operation Ladbroke - Sicily 1943, Photo Stories
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Tagged 2 South Staffords, Capt Fletcher AFPU, Dennis Galpin, George Chatterton, Gliders in Sicily, Horsa gliders, Lennard Withers, Operation Husky Sicily 1943, Operation Ladbroke Sicily 1943, Ponte Grande bridge
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