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Suez (Operation Musketeer)

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Colonel Paul Crook and Tactical Headquarters walk towards El Gamil airfield's control tower after dropping.

Contemporary feature about the Suez invasion in Illustrated magazine.

Pegasus extract from January 1957 including Port Said memories and obituaries of those killed at Suez.

Description of the capture of El Gamil airfield by 3rd Parachute Battalion.

Summary of Operation Musketeer.

List of temporary terms of ceasefire at Port Said, Suez.

Report on the air aspects of the airborne operation at El Gamil airfield, Port Said.

Outline Calendar of Events, August-December 1956.

Report on the execution of Operation Musketeer.

Report on the mounting of Operation Musketeer.

Aerial shot of El Gamil Airfield annotated to show drop zone, rendezvous points, and direction of fly in.

Aerial shot of Port Said showing part of the Suez Canal and surrounding buildings and land.

Aerial shot of Port Said.

Aerial shot of Port Said.

Aerial shot of Port Said.

Aerial shot of Port Said showing part of the Suez Canal and El Gamil Airfield.

Aerial shot of Port Said.

Letter from Naval Captain Smeeton about gift of beer to paratroopers.

Letter from Brigadier Butler to Fleet Air Arm about gift of HMS Eagle flag.

Letter of appreciation from personnel of HMS Bulwark to the first in the field.

A member of the Parachute Regiment aims his gun out of a window in El Gamil.

A member of 3 PARA stands on a balcony with a gun, overlooking a bomb-destroyed Port Said.

Paratroopers of A Company, 3 PARA move in to take the airport centre of El Gamil airfield while other men are still descending.

Paratroopers capture a Russian SU-100 tank in Port Said.

Lieutenant Paul Crook (left) with Tactical HQ at Coast Guard Barracks, November 6, 1956.

Locals examine the destruction of buildings in Port Said. Fires burn in the background.

An SU-100 tank destroyer dug into sandy soil. A paratrooper stands on it holding a rifle.

Buildings burn on El Gamil airfield. A recently dropped container can also be seen.

Egyptians evacuate Port Said from the Falucca harbour.

Last of first lift of 3 PARA dropping on El Gamil airfield. Men are making for their RVs. November 5, 1956.

Men of 3 PARA in Nicosia, Cyprus beside the Hastings aircraft that will drop them at El Gamil airfield.

Hastings aircraft dropping arms and equipment by parachute to men on the ground.

HQ Company of 1 PARA en route to Port Said by sea. November 1956.

Two paratroopers pose with a mirror in a Port Said flat.

Capt Geoffrey Howlett, 3 PARA, rides a small tricycle through a street in Port Said while locals look on.

Port Said Gazette about ceasefire in Egypt and summary of Operation Musketeer. November 6, 1956.

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