Poplar Wood, Gloucestershire

Inscription on Normandy and Arnhem memorial

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From this airfield in 1944-5 Douglas Dakotas from 48 and 271 squadrons RAF transport command, carried the 1st and 6th airborne divisions, units of the Air Despatch Regiment and Horsa gliders flown by the Glider Pilots Regiment to Normandy-Arnhem and on the crossing of the Rhine operations - we will remember them

Uploaded to Geograph by David Smith on 28 December 2012

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