Hi All I am starting the thread for sortie US7 1750 [6JUN1944] to map the gliders east of Orne river in GE. All pictures do already have a location tagged. No claims on new finds here but: I overlayed frame 3063 picturing the hameau of Sainte-Honorine-la-Chardonnerette up to frame 3077 picturing the hameau of Sanlleelles. Into the overlay I marked all gliders visible to me. Plan here is to expand the knowledgebase for gliders at D-Day for this location and build a *kmz map. To be continued.
The GE overlay screen was taken at a altitude of 40k feet. The following screens were taken at a GE alitude of 6.6k feet. Image credit NCAP and GE Hameau Oger Amfreville Ranville Le Bas de Ranville St Honorine de Chardronette
Hi Hans, There is some aerial footage of DZ/LZ 'N' gliders which we geo-positioned in post #30 of the thread 'Extracts from 'Looking Down on War''. Hamilcars are clearly distinguishable from Horsas in the footage. As far as I know, the only individual glider which has been identified by chalk number on LZ 'N' is a Hamilcar circled red in an extract from your montage below: The identification is from page 187 of 'One Night in June' by Kevin Shannon and Stephen Wright. The chalk number was #500 and the glider was piloted by 2Lt T. W. Taylorson and Sgt R. J. Simpson, 'C' Squadron, the Glider Pilot Regiment out of RAF Tarrant Rushton. This glider landed at 0330 hrs on the 6th June. Regards, Pat
Hi to All, I continued capturing the gliders from Sortie US7/1750 and geo-located each of them onto a track of frames from sortie US7/1750 in GE. This sortie took place around noon based on the shadows visible in the images. Image credit is NCAP. As help and reference I used this frame from Fold3 within the folder on D-Day landings. From the casted shadows it seems afternoon on D-Day. One single glider can be seen between Canal de Caen and Orne River. The most of them are east of Orne River at Ranville. Image credit: Fold3(http://www.fold3.com/image/1/35468377/) To see the difference between 6June and 7 June I took the Ranville landing zone and compared it with the Frame 7127 from sortie US7/1769, taken also at afternoon and can see the number of gliders visible has increased overnight 3 to 4 fold.
Hello Hans My apologies if I have overlooked it, but have you on any previous piece posted pictures of the Le Chaos battery at Longues-sur-mer either pre or post-D-Day? many thanks Allan
Hello Hans Thanks for the quick reply - I will leave it up to you to decide on a new thread, I am enjoying this one very much. Allan