Tony Bray - The Glider Pilot Regiment
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Military historian Tony Bray tonight outlines how the airborne forces, both parachute and glider-borne, were developed in 1940. He will introduce the four main military gliders used by the Allies – from the small Hotspur used for training, to the massive tank-carrying Hamilcar, and explain how the future pilots of the Glider Pilot Regiment were selected and trained.
Tony takes us through what it was like to fly a Horsa glider into Normandy just after midnight on 6th June 1944, to seize the bridge over the Caen Canal at Benouville, later to be called Pegasus Bridge
Tony takes us through what it was like to fly a Horsa glider into Normandy just after midnight on 6th June 1944, to seize the bridge over the Caen Canal at Benouville, later to be called Pegasus Bridge
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Where is it happening?
Kents Hill Community Centre, 1 Frithwood Crescent,Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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