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Stirlings_ready_for_Operation_Tonga_at_RAF_Keevil_June_1944_IWM_CH_13298.jpg

File:Stirlings ready for Operation Tonga at RAF Keevil June 1944 IWM CH 13298.jpg

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English: Operation TONGA . Short Stirling Mark IVs of Nos. 196 and 299 Squadrons RAF, lining the runway at RAF Keevil , Wiltshire, UK, on the evening of 5 June, before emplaning paratroops of the 5th Parachute Brigade Group for the invasion of Normandy.

Date

5 June 1944

Source

This photograph CH 13298 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums .

Author

Clark N S (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer

Permission
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