A paratrooper makes a heavy landing during an exercise. (Critical Past film 65675058877)
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1st Airborne Battle Training
A brief overview of the training undertaken by the British 1st Airborne Division before it flew to Arnhem.
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Men of the 1st Airborne Division Headquarters Defence Platoon. (Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum)
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1st Airborne Division Headquarters Defence Platoon
How men of the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry came to make up the Defence Platoon of 1st Airborne Division's Headquarters.
Men of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade training in Scotland in 1943. (Trails of Hope, Polish Institute of National Remembrance)
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1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
A brief history of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade Group in the UK during World War II.
An officer of the 82nd Airborne Division briefs his men at Cottesmore airfield before embarking for the Netherlands on Operation MARKET GARDEN, 17 September 1944. (US Army Signal Corps)
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A Story of Three Nations
Our Story...
Members of 89 Field Security Section, 1944:
Back Row, L-R: Cpls D Zucker, E Zitman, M Hanet, A Maybury and PD Scarr.
Middle Row, L-R: Cpls MN Edwards, R Gray, R Smyth, AJ Gorrie, R Foster, B Gately and J Linden.
Front Row, L-R: Sgts T Chambers and A Ramage, WO2 T Armstrong, Capt. JE Killick, L/Cpl F Eley, Sgts R Syme and R Pinquet. (Airborne Assault Museum)
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Airborne Spies: 89 Field Security Section, Intelligence Corps
The role, organization and people of 89 Field Security Section, Intelligence Corps, in the British 1st Airborne Division.
A jeep towing a 6-pounder anti-tank gun from the 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment, moving east along the Utrechtseweg, Oosterbeek, towards Arnhem on Monday, 18th September 1944.
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British 1st Airborne Division
A brief history of the British 1st Airborne Division.
Sergeant Sidney Cornell DCM, B Company, 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion. (Paradata/Airborne Assault Museum)
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British African-Caribbean Airborne Soldiers
Links to Paradata, the digital archive of the Airborne Assault Museum, which contains biographies of known British African-Caribbean Airborne Soldiers.
British Airborne troops of 6th Airlanding Brigade admire the graffiti chalked on the side of their Horsa glider at an RAF airfield as they prepare to fly out to Normandy as part of 6th Airborne Division's second lift on the evening of 6 June 1944. (IWM H 39178)
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D-Day, 6 June 1944: The Airborne Assault
The role played by UK and US Airborne Forces in the Allied assault on Normandy on 6 June 1944.
IWM D 68515
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Exercise JOHNNY, 20/21 March 1944
Exercise JOHNNY was conducted by the 1st Parachute Brigade on 20/21 March 1944 to practise Brigade units in conducting a night attack with artillery support. The narrative includes maps showing the phases of the exercise.