Veteran Stories

Des Page

Written by Peter Cook IT WAS a perfect landing. Des Page and Stan Graham brought their Horsa glider down in the middle of a ploughed field near Wolfheze on September 18 1944. They were...
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Jim Bourne

Written by Peter Cook AS HE parachuted onto Ginkel Heath outside Arnhem on 18 September 1944, Jim Bourne could not have known that before he saw England again he would have been badly...
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William (Bill) Langley

Written by Peter Cook WHEN the 11 th Parachute Battalion jumped over Arnhem on 18 September 1944 it had 750 men.  But only 187 returned to the barracks in Melton Mowbray after the ill-fated...
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