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File:FIGHTER COMMAND, NO. 38 (AIRBORNE FORCES) GROUP RAF.jpg

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English: ROYAL AIR FORCE: FIGHTER COMMAND, NO. 38 (AIRBORNE FORCES) GROUP RAF. Operation VARSITY. General Aircraft Hamilcars and Airspeed Horsas, flanked by Handley Page Halifax A Mark VII glider tugs of Nos. 298 and 644 Squadrons RAF, lined up and ready for take-off at Woodbridge, Suffolk. The Woodbridge Emergency Landing Ground was closed on 19 March 1945 for five days as 68 aircraft/glider combinations flew in, 60 of which took part in the operation.
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This photograph CH 14882 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author Miller (Flt Lt) Royal Air Force official photographer
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