Loading a 6 pounder gun onto a Horsa

Title

Loading a 6 pounder gun onto a Horsa

Description

With its side hinged nose open a gun is guided up a ramp into the fuselage of a Horsa glider by a group of seven airmen. Reverse printed 'A.M.Crown Copyright Reserved' and annotated 'R136C beg 5' and 'Loading up of Horsa Mk 2 at Woodbridge, 6 Pdr Gun'.

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Format

One b/w photograph

Rights

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Identifier

PCornwellSmithJC25040014; PCornwellSmithJC250015;

Citation

Great Britain. Air Ministry, “Loading a 6 pounder gun onto a Horsa,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 13, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/52659.