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Map showing 2 Independent Brigade's operations in Greece.
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Paratroopers fit their 'chutes and prepare to emplane.
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The force gets its first sight of the Greek coast.
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Paratroopers have their kit checked before emplaning.
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Paratroopers prepare for operations in Greece and load a Waco glider.
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Two paratroopers take up position in the doorway of a building.
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A street destroyed after fighting.
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Maj Barnes and Lt Watson consult maps before an attack in Athens. 23 December 1944
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Paratroopers fire Vickers machine guns from roof of KKE building in Athens.
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A soldier crouches with his gun in a street destroyed by fighting.
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A private from 5th Parachute Battalion lays a mortar in Greece. December 1944.
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Three paratroopers from 5th Parachute Battalion load a mortar.
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A private preparing mortar shells.
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Athenians welcome 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade. October 1944.
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5th Parachute Battalion with pipes and drums in Constitution Square.
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A Company 6th Parachute Battalion raise the Greek flag at the Acropolis.
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US paratroopers lie dead in France with wreckage of glider in background.
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Officers of 22nd Ind Para Coy synchronise their watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle.
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General Gale's Horsa glider in Normandy at landing zone W.
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Glider troops beside the glider in which they landed at landing zone N.
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Many parachutes and a a Horsa glider landing north-east of Caen.
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Hamilcar gliders carrying 6 Airborne Armoured Recce Regiment landing in Normandy,
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Anti-glider posts in Caen.
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Operation Rob Roy, the re-supply operation on 7th June on drop zone N.
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Group photo of those who won medals at Normandy with Montgomery. 1/9/1944.
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Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade with captured Germans
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Sea-borne Universal Carrier passes a crash landed glider, June 1944.
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Airborne troops talk to French civilians between Ranville and Amfreville.
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Airborne troops help put out a tank fire.
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British troops engaged with enemy troops in fight for Caen bridges.
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Four paratroopers stand with a burned out Hotchkiss tank chassis.
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Five airborne soldiers stand beside humorous graffiti in Normandy, 1944.
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Gliders cross the Channel above ships of the Royal Navy.
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9th Parachute Battalion file past carrying equipment, Germany, March 1945
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Members of 6th Airborne Division outside Breville church.
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Gliders on landing zone near Ranville.
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