<i>Royal Air Force- Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Air Force, No. 38 Group RAF.</i><br>
Operation MARKET I: the airborne operation to seize bridges between Arnhem and Eindhoven, Holland, (part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden" class="extiw" title="en:Operation Market Garden">Operation MARKET GARDEN</a>).  Wing Commander G E Harrison (left), the Commanding Officer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._190_Squadron_RAF" class="extiw" title="en:No. 190 Squadron RAF">No. 190 Squadron RAF</a>, with his crew, recounts their experiences towing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed_Horsa" class="extiw" title="en:Airspeed Horsa">Airspeed Horsa</a> gliders to Landing Zone (LZ) 'N' near Nijmegen, to Group Captain A H Wheeler, the Station Commander of Fairford, Gloucestershire, in front of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Stirling" class="extiw" title="en:Short Stirling">Short Stirling</a>.  No.190 Squadron flew a total of 98 sorties during Operation MARKET, and suffered heavy losses, particularly on 21 September 1944, when 7 out of 10 Stirlings failed to return from a resupply sortie, including that of Harrison and his crew, who were all killed.
Bridge B (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer
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