Horsa gliders landing near Hamminkeln, Germany, a few miles from the Dutch border, during the airborne drop east of the Rhine; 25 March 1945.


Gliders landing

Exhausted British and Canadian soldiers returning in England after the failure at Dieppe. They were lucky to avoid capture by the Germans.Unfortunately several of their brothers-in-arms gave their lives on the beaches, killed in action or taken prisoners.
taken from fb/History of WW2/Jérome Lepois

Lucky survivors

British Airborne troops wait to board a Horsa glider; December 1942.

