Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

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The US was able to send large glider-borne forces into combat starting with their disastrous use in the invasion of in Sicily in 1943, and following with Anglo-American air assaults in Normandy, ...

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More than 1,500 aircraft and 1,300 gliders - carrying British, American, and Canadian airborne soldiers - participated in the operation. Sixty of those gliders were flown from Earls Colne.