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Summary

Description A Short Stirling Mark IV (LK115, '8S-Z') of No. 295 Squadron RAF, taking off from Harwell, Oxfordshire (UK), towing an Airspeed Horsa glider. This was one of 25 Stirling / Horsa combinations which carried the Headquarters of I Airborne Corps to landing zones near Groesbeek, Nijmegen.
Date Taken on 17 September 1944
Source
This photograph CH 13857 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums .
Author F/O T. Lea, Royal Air Force official photographer

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