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Hi Kevin, Great post and many thanks for sharing the items in your collection. Have you seen the colour footage of London shot by Jack Lieb...

Hi Ellen, Great to hear from you and that your Mam is doing well. Despite the very different Armistice Day this year, it was heartening to see...

Thank Sean, I tend to agree with your assessment. Does the term 'unoccupied' in that document indicate that a particular site is a dummy or is...

Hi Jan, Can you send me your source document indicating the locations of the Road Junctions C1 and C2 please? I can keep it off list if you so...

Thanks Sean, I had checked that document in the hope that it might have made reference to an initial burial site before S/Sgt Ockwell was...

Hi Jan, I take the long hand version of the IP coordinates to read 49° 00’ 00” N // 0° 16’ 00” W which puts the location intersecting the N158...

Leaving aside the CWGC cemeteries at Bayeux and Le Harve for a moment.... There are 11 CWGC grave sites within a ten mile radius of Grangues as...

Hi Patrick, There is a first hand account of Chalk #66's co-pilot Ron Hellyer to the landing...on land. Chalk #67 was the Horsa which landed in...

A bit more.... I have been wrapped on the knuckles by NCAP staff before for posting zoomed extracts from their website using my 'zoomable'...

Jim, A few years back I was tracking down the locations of unknown frames from a USAAF reconnaissance flight on D-Day. The Sortie is US7GR_1746...

Hi Jim, The account doesn't give me the impression that the Padre was in Chalk 66; just that he went on the mission. IIRC, there is a scene from...

Ian Fyfe story is related here... Strange his body was never found as chalk #66 did not ditch in the sea by all accounts

A bit more... The tow plane for Horsa #66 appears to be an Albemarle of No. 570 Squadron, piloted by Squadron Leader Grice out of RAF Harwell....

More from page p.39/40.... It appears there was a palm reader amongst the Glider Pilots and on the evening of the 5th June, he began to read the...

Jim, Appendix III (p 195) of above book refers: Chalk No. - 66 LZ V - Glider Pilots S/Sgt Ockwell, V. and Sgt Hellyer, T.R. Load:- Jeep,...

Jim, Can you post his full name and his Service Number (if known) please? Thanks, Pat

Jim, I am searching through my copy of 'One Night in June' by Kevin Shannon and Stephen Wright to see if there are any clues to your quest...

Hi Jan, Merry Christmas to you too. Can you send me a copy of the map (if there is one) showing the location of the C-1 and C-2 Road Junction...

Hi All, Has anyone been able to tie the Miller footage to 'just south of Namur, Belgium (VJ9509)? I have been trying to obtain aerial cover of...

David, I don't have a copy to hand; what date does the ORB state this mission was flown on? Thanks, Pat