Operation Varsity: The Beginning of the End

Operation Varsity: The Beginning of the End With Rivenhall Chris Part of our Gliders and Troop Carrier series    • Gliders and Troop Carriers   Also part of our Transport and logistics series    • Transport, Logistics and War Finance   Also part of our Airborne series    • Airborne Forces   Part of our 1945 series    • 1945   In honour of Operation Varsity we look at one of the bases the aircraft departed from. There is an 80th anniversary event taking place in March 2025 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... RAF Rivenhall began as a USAAF base where P51’s operated from late Jan ‘44 until B26 Marauders replaced them. The RAF moved to the base 10 days after Market Garden ended, and 295 and 570 Squadrons flying Mk IV Stirlings and A Squadron Glider Pilot Regiment moved in. In today's show we will look at the RAF and GPR operations flown from the base. Mainly SOE resupply drops, but some Agent drops were carried out into the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. All 3 units played a big part in Op VARSITY - 6 Airborne Division HQ along with elements from 1 RUR and 12 Devons flew in gliders from Rivenhall. The links Chris mentioned: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it... https://www.paradata.org.uk/article/c... https://www.pegasusarchive.org/varsit... ​Please click subscribe for updates and the bell icon for notifications You can become a Patron and support us here   / ww2tv   You can become a YouTube Member and support us here    / @ww2tv   Social Media links -   / ww2tv     / ww2tv     / ww2tv   For First World War content follow our sister channel WW1TV    / @ww1tvchannel   WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV Patreon Brigadiers: Susan Yu Become a WW2TV Brigadier and become part of this Hall of Fame   / ww2tv