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File:Operation Mallard gliders and tugs RAF Tarrant Rushton June 1944 IWM CL 26.jpg

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English: IWM caption : Operation MALLARD : aircraft prepared for the reinforcement of the British airborne assault, assembled at Tarrant Rushton, Hampshire, on the afternoon of 6 June. On the runway are General Aircraft Hamilcar heavy lift gliders, preceded by two Airspeed Horsa troop-carrying gliders, while parked on each side of them are Handley Page Halifax glider-tugs of Nos. 298 and 644 Squadrons RAF.
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This photograph CL 26 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
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