AIRBORNE TROOPS
DEMONSTRATION IN BRITAIN LONDON, May 19. The King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth spent today with airborne troops. They saw one of the biggest glider landings carried out in Britain. They excitedly watched from the control tower of a Royal Air Force station as score after score of gliders landed. It was a thrilling, fantastic and impressive sight as the big gliders swept suddenly into sight, the first one landing and pulling up within a few yards of the Royal visitors. The aerodrome was soon crowded with gliders. Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory, Commander-in-Chief of the invasion air forces, was with the Royal visitors, who earlier saw several hundred paratroops dropped from the sky in formation.
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Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22354, 22 May 1944, Page 3
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