Glider Marker 3 Bénouville

This Glider Marker marks the place were the third glider landed.

The text on the memorial:
THE HORSA GLIDER OF LIEUTENANT
R.A. SMITH. PILOTED BY STAFF SERGEANTS
BARKWAY AND BOYLE AND ALSO CARRYING
CAPTAIN J. VAUGHAN, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS AND 28 SOLDIERS LANDED ON THIS SPOT AT 0018 HOURS ON 6 JUNE 1944.

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Source

• Text: Jente de Roust
• Photos: Jente de Roust (1, 2, 3), Arjan Vrieze (4)
• AMBROSE, S.E., De pegasus brug, De Boekerij, Amsterdam, 2009.

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