101st Airborne en route to Normandy by Ivan Berryman. (AP) SHN166 The fierce attack by the

The fierce attack by the French infantry on Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo

Aignan de Cramesnil some 4 miles behind German lines

and it will perhaps be remembered by many a grateful GI for its (and its crews) part in many hundreds of daring rescues amid the unyielding and unfamiliar terrain of south east Asia

It was during this engagement that Staffelkapitan Oberleutnant Rudorffer Yellow 1 of 6/JG2 claimed 2 of the American Spitfires

101st Airborne en route to Normandy by Ivan Berryman. (AP) SHN166 The fierce attack by theB0454AP. 101st Airborne en route to Normandy by Ivan Berryman. A Douglas C 47 of the 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group gets away from the Devon airfield of Upottery on 5th June 1944 carrying paratroops of 101st Airborne Division. The company departed from Upottery airbase in Devon, England, and dropped over the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy, France in the early hours of the morning of June 6th, 1944 at the start of the Normandy