Gliders and tugs at RAF Tarrant Rushton

Gliders and tugs at RAF Tarrant Rushton

Oblique aerial photograph of the may runway running left bottom to top right; on the southern end are two lines of sixteen Hamilcar gliders with further Hamilcars dispersed in the background. On the grass each side of the runway are parked fourteen Halifax Mk 3 facing inwards at an oblique angle. All aircraft carry invasion stripes.

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1944

One b/w photograph

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