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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1737002" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10931505_648350495294746_6901272289109769016_o.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Men of “E Squadron” Glider Pilot Regiment photographed at RAF Down Ampney shortly before 'Operation Market Garden' in September 1944. The men pictured here piloted Horsa Gliders in to the operational area on the 17th & 18th of September 1944. Once on the ground many of E Squadron defended the Divisional HQ at Oosterbeek. The Regiment suffered 60% casualties during ‘Market Garden’ and never recovered from the losses. Brigadier Hackett, commanding 4 Parachute Brigade said of the these men that “they were the finest body of soldiers that the British Army produced in WW2”</blockquote>