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Tony Bray - The Glider Pilot Regiment

  • Kents Hill Community Centre · Milton Keynes
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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
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Kents Hill Community Centre, 1 Frithwood Crescent,Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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