Seven victims of Operation Freshman, the ill-fated wartime mission launched from RAF Skitten, have been remembered at a ...

Mr Barkway was at the controls of the 3rd Horsa Glider with six other aircraft. They landed at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day on 6 June, 1944. The Chalk Collection Ms Barkway-Harney ...

An 80th anniversary service has been held in memory of 23 men who died in a WWII glider crash. On 17 September 1944, an RAF Airspeed Horsa glider broke apart in mid-air, minutes after taking off ...

Work to identify the aircraft parts has begun, but an important data plate of a Horsa glider, a model used by British forces, is among them. Flt Sgt Graham Moore, who led the project, said it had ...