File:Horsa glider landing in Cornwall on way to Africa 1943.jpg

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Description A Royal Air Force Airspeed Horsa Mark I demonstrates its characteristically steep landing approach with flaps fully while being flown into Portreath, Cornwall (UK), for "Operation Beggar": the transit of Handley Page Halifax/Horsa glider combinations from the United Kingdom to North Africa by units of No. 38 Wing RAF, in preparation for the invasion of Sicily ("Operation Husky").
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This photograph CM 6936 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
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