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Thanks for the response, John. The opening I was looking at does appear to have been the result of the crash. So, we are looking into a...

Another impressive analysis! It does look like a very possible match of the aerial shot and ground shot of the Horsa glider across the road from...

Thanks, guys, I appreciate the responses, information and encouragement. I will persevere. As for the dots on the landing map, I enlarged...

Getting back to this matter, I have now received the "Histories" of the remaining three Squadrons in Serial 32 for the subject mission; they are...

Hi, John - Thanks for pointing out the other glider. I had seen it sometime back and completely forgot about it. You have probably already...

While waiting for the enhanced version of NCAP 4108/1002, I have continued to look closely at the versions that we have now, including the...

Yes, John, I was thinking along the same lines. Since Hoatson and my father were in the same 12 glider squadron, it would be reasonable to look...

Yes, John, I am familiar with that aerial image and was looking at it again today. Looks like two gliders ended up laying across the road....

I was going through the Hoatson thread the other day and while the name Hoatson had not been familiar to me a while back, it did ring a bell of...

Hi, and thanks for the welcome. I looked at the website and found it all to be quite interesting. The letter from "Daddy Bill" is amazing, as is...

Pat, I was searching on the Yad Vashem site where you found the landing field with the five gliders. I ran accross another landing field which...

Disregard my inquiry about the "Brown Photos". I realize that this was a reference to the Brown Album of the Kenny Knotts photo collection. I am...

A further reply: You noted that the Waco glider not flown by Bertsch carried 307th Med. Co personnel and landed 2 miles from a LZ. I see that...

Some very interesting additional facts and incites, Don. A while back I had written to the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis and...

Pat, I can't thank you enough for the photos and comments you have been providing. I am looking at all of it very carefully and with great...

Pat, thanks for the photos. Very interesting stuff!

Thanks, John for the photo and the link to the Hoatson Horsa Wreck thread. I will be digging into all of this as soon as I can. [hr] firstflabn,...

RE: New Posts: length [hr] Yes, Pat, the attachment was a glider landing chart, a JPEG file of 1039 KB. Whatever the simplest was to handle this...

Very sharp of you to have noticed. I have meant to correct the original post but haven't figured out how to do it. Anyway, I had originally just...