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Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)
1st Allied Airborne Corps, which included the American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, was tasked to secure the main canal...
Hubert W Pegnall, known as Bert, attended parachute training course number 117 between 21 May and 8 June 1944.Trooper Pegnall was posted to D Troop, 10 Section, 1st Airborne Division Reconnaissance Squadron, and in September 1944 was deployed on Operation Market Garden.
Trooper Pegnall was taken Prisoner of War and sent to Stalag XIB in Fallingbostel, Germany, where he remained until the liberation in May 1945.
Service History
- Date not known 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron (Trooper)
