44-6-6 Operation Deadstick, D-Day

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The night before D-Day, another daring and dangerous mission took place. Six Halifax bombers towed six Airspeed Horsa gliders from Dorset across the English channel. They were to land 150 British paratroopers near 2 bridges in France that were of vital strategic importance once D-Day would commence. These men were dropped behind enemy lines and would have to not just capture the bridges, but prevent the Germans from blowing them up and hold out until they would eventually be relieved by the troops storming the beaches of Normandy… if these troops would even manage to break through the German defences.

The honour of this incredibly dangerous mission was given to the British D-company in what has become known as “Operation Deadstick”, the first Allied action of D-Day.

On the 6th of June 1944, D-Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That day, over 130.000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Western Europe.