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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American military uniforms became a familiar sight in Grantham
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American forces changed Local Life
The impact of American military on local life.
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.
17 September 1944: Men of the British 3rd Parachute Battalion jumping from C-47s of the US 314th Troop Carrier Group over the dropzone at Renkum, near Arnhem. (Paradata/Airborne Assault Museum)
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Operation MARKET GARDEN
The Allied operation in September 1944 when Allied Airborne troops captured bridges in the Netherlands and Allied ground forces tried to advance northwards from the Belgian border to the town of Arnhem.
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Romance Blossomed in the Depths of War
Thousands of miles from home, an American pilot and an Army nurse found romance amidst the horrors of World War II.
Technical Sergeant Theodore Carter Brewer while serving with the US 314th Troop Carrier Group at Saltby during World War II. (via Beryl Guest)
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The American GI father that Beryl never knew
Beryl Guest discovered her American GI father.
C-47 42-23342 of the 314th Troop Carrier Group at Harlaxton after its crash-landing in January 1945. (via Col Mark Vlahos)
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The Day a C-47 crash-landed at Harlaxton airfield
The crash-landing of a C-47 of the US 314th Troop Carrier Group at Harlaxton airfield on 29 January 1945.
Story by Colonel Mark C 'Plug' Vlahos, USAF – Retired, World War II 314th Troop Carrier Group Historian and Author.
Story by Colonel Mark C 'Plug' Vlahos, USAF – Retired, World War II 314th Troop Carrier Group Historian and Author.
June 1944: Paratroopers of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, US 82nd Airborne Division, check their parachutes at Saltby airfield in preparation for D-Day. (US Army Signal Corps)
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US Airborne Forces in the East Midlands, 1943-45
A survey of the US Airborne Forces in Lincolnshire and the East Midlands, 1943-1945.
A rare still from a historic film. It is late evening, 5 June 1944, and Lt Col Joel Crouch lifts off from North Witham's runway 30, the first Allied aircraft to take off for the Airborne assault on Normandy, D-Day. (Critical Past 65675058906: U.S. Government Archive Number:342 USAF 48197 [DBVT])
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US Airborne Pathfinders in World War II
The story of the Pathfinder aircrew and paratroopers of the US Army in World War II.