Please no Paras and Commandos together !!!
Re: Airborne Assault !!!
Please no Paras and Commandos together !!!
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
Re: Airborne Assault !!!
The British assault onto Sicily in July by 2,200 men of the 1st Air landing Brigade in gliders and the 1st Parachute Brigade consisting of 1, 2 , 3 Para whcih assaulted the famous Primosole Bridge, where British Airborne and the German Fallschirmjager slugged it out for control of the vital bridge.
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
Re: Airborne Assault !!!
Two more the British airborne drop during Operation Dragoon the July 1944 invasion of the South of France and thedrop on the 12th October 1944 by the 2nd Independant Parachute Brigade into Greece , Operation Manna
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
Re: Airborne Assault !!!
That's abit strange - that makes 2 British/Commonwealth operations in WW2 called Manna - this one and also the food drops over The Netherlands in 1945.
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