(1606) Was hoping that all the construction, deliveries etc. would be over for the day but they’re not … waiting on another now till about 1800. Messes with the site. (1747) Delivery delivered, cream-crackered here, shall snooze then do some more.
16. D Day with Steve
Operation Overlord was one of several operations that took place on the 6th June 1944. Operation Neptune, the naval phase that preceded the Battle of Normandy, was massive with near-on 7,000 vessels involved.
But what of Operation Deadstick? Well that was last night, 82 years ago, which began at what was then RAF Tarrant Rushton, in Dorset. You cycle by these places when you’re a kid, not knowing what went on there all those years ago – in my case 25 years or so before when me and my mates found it, covered in grass with a few wooden huts, windows broken.
It was the place and the time where gliders sat waiting, for the soldiers of D Company, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 6th Airlanding Brigade. Commanded by Major John Howard. You can read an amazing account of it here:
As an aside the actor Richard Todd, who played Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters, was a lieutenant in 7 Para and was given a field promotion to captain during the action at ‘Pegasus Bridge’.
Apologies that link is D Company Battle Order, 1st June 1944. This is the correct one:
| https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/pegasus-bridge-operation-deadsticks-glider-assault/
15. Moo corner
14. Voter ID
13. Police have lost the plot and the people
12. Playing God
11. Hmmmmm
