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RAF Rivenhall event remembers

BBC News 16 Mar 2025
Of the 890 Glider Pilot Regiment personnel who took part in Varsity, more than 20% of them were killed or wounded ... Sixty gliders towed by two RAF squadrons left the airfield at 07.00 GMT on 24 March 1945, carrying part of the 6th Airborne Division.
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Col Charles Mercer, officer serving with the Chindits who attacked the Japanese in Burma – obituary

The Daily Telegraph 06 Mar 2025
In 1943 Mercer, then a second lieutenant, was posted to Nigeria ... On the night of April 6 1944, Mercer’s platoon, part of 35 Column, took off from Lalaghat in a glider towed by a Douglas Dakota ... Corporal Sally Raimondo RAF/77th Brigade ... Show comments ... .
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Colonel Charles Mercer, one of the last of the Chindits who fought the Japanese in Burma

AOL 05 Mar 2025
In 1943 Mercer, then a second lieutenant, was posted to Nigeria ... On the night of April 6 1944 Mercer’s platoon, part of 35 Column, took off from Lalaghat in a glider towed by a Douglas Dakota ... .
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