A rapidly growing collection of historically important documents, photographs, uniforms, equipment, and ephemera primarily relating to the Glider Pilot Regiment
Leeds, England
Joined July 2018
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By trade, I'm a graphic designer and even I can see that A.I. has a place IF used correctly... this is an example of it being used so incorrectly that its actually laughable... unless you're fool enough to spend money on something like this - and of course, its available on Ebay!
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Found this great advert in a 1955 Eagle publication!
'Too ••• Dicey Up There' 😎
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The invasion of Sicily, July 1943.
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Whitley Tugs and Horsas Training Photograph. Circa 1943.
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3/4 …and overhead cover... but No.1 H.G.S.U. worked through all this to patch up and fly out complete gliders along with several thousand spare parts!
2/4 …so we stuck our noses into the archive and found some pretty interesting details.
The hundreds of wrecked gliders which lay strewn across Normandy were subject to storms, shelling, tank action, British soldiers and French civilians ripping them apart for firewood…
1/4 Something that we've been meaning to look into for some time is the probability of retrieving airworthy gliders after the airborne landings on D.Day.
The Horsa seems to get a misappropriated reputation for being a lumbering, flimsy, flying coffin...
@BattlefieldBen I designed these for the Paulton Memorial with Peter Yeates. These are the prototypes, the final pieces were thicker. They’re laser cut steel and could be a cost effective alternative? There’d be no fee from me personally, only production and installation cost.
