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This night in 1944, Operation Pegasus, Royal Canadian Engineers and men of Easy Company, US 506th PIR, successfully evacuated a large group of men trapped in German occupied territory who had been in hiding since the Battle of Arnhem. #WW2
Art by Gil Cohen
This night in 1943, the first British H2S radar-assisted attack of the war.
Stirling and Halifax bombers of the Pathfinder force used H2S to drop flares on a target in Hamburg. 100 Lancasters following the Pathfinders used the flares as the target for their bombsights. #WW2
US Lockheed P-38 fighter aircraft of the 383d Fighter Squadron based at RAF Honington, England. #WW2
B-17 Flying Fortresses of the US 381st Bomb Group fly in formation over England, 1944. #WW2
P-51 Mustang "TIKA-IV" of the U.S. 361st Fighter Group in flight over England.
This Mustang was passed to another pilot who renamed it "Sailor Girl Shirl". The pilot was killed during a crash landing in November 1944. #WW2
Sgt. Holmes of No. 504 Squadron RAF rammed through the tail of a German Dornier Do 17, who headed for Buckingham Palace, after his machine guns failed during the attack on the German plane.
Holmes parachuted to safety, the German bomber fell at Victoria station. #WW2