Royal Air Force, Photographic Reconnaissance Unit
1944, 7 June
[D-Day - Landing Zone 'N', north of Ranville, Normandy, on the day following Operation MALLARD]
[Royal Air Force: Operations by the Photographic Reconnaissance Units, 1939-1945]

Photograph
Imperial War Museum
HU 92976
 
Oblique photographic-reconnaissance vertical, taken from 800 feet, showing part of Landing Zone 'N', north of Ranville, Normandy, on the day following Operation MALLARD: the airborne landing of 6th Air Landing Brigade and the Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment in the evening of 6 June 1944. Airspeed Horsa troop-carrying gliders and one damaged GAL Hamilcar tank-carrying glider (lower right) litter this part of the LZ close to the Ranville-Salanelles road.
 
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