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50 - Operation Tonga
Episode 50

50 - Operation Tonga

The WW2 Podcast · Angus Wallace

September 1, 201748m 51s

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Show Notes

In this episode I'm looking at Operation Tonga, the British airborne element that led the way during the D-Day landings in 1944.

I'm joined by Stephen Wright.

Stephen is keenly interested in the operation, an operation his uncle was killed taking part in. For the last twenty years he's been researching the airborne, and particularly the use of Gliders during the closing years of the war.

His book, co-authored with Bill Shannon, Operation Tonga brings to the reader first hand accounts of that night. Stephen is also involved with a new feature film True Valour, you can follow its progress here on Facebook and for more information the website is truevalourmovie.com.