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- gallantry and leadership whilst serving as a platoon commander in the gliderborne 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) coup de...
- War II invasion of Normandy. It details the coup de main operation by gliderborne troops, which captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges (Pegasus...
- Sword Military ISBN 978-1844158829. M****y-Beresford, Michael (2007). Gliderborne: The story of the 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
- the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium (the first ever ****ault by gliderborne troops), and would later be used in the invasion of Crete in 1941. However...
- World War he was a platoon commander in the coup de main operation, by gliderborne troops of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry...
- was, along with Pegasus Bridge, captured during Operation Tonga by gliderborne troops of the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the...
- comes from World War II where allied troop-carrier squadrons developed gliderborne teams called Combat Control Teams. A Combat Control Team consisted of...
- converted for the airlanding role, though there is little known about gliderborne training or operations in India. 14th was later to be converted for the...
- Second World War he led the first platoon to land at Horsa Bridge in the gliderborne 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd)...
- itself consisted of four battalions of Fallschirmjaeger trained as a gliderborne ****ault force. Hauptmann Koch was promoted to the rank of Major for his...