Glider Monument

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This is a still from a newsreel taken at Ramsbury Airbase on September 17, 1944.

Here, you see men of the 101st Airborne Signal Company marching to their gliders.

The first two soldiers are the British Signalmen; Corporals Harold Spence and Frederick Arthur Sellers.

Frederick died of wounds in the hospital where he was taken to after the crash.

 

Here, you see Sergeant Meeker briefing men of the Signal Company.

Front row:

First from left: Pvt. Thomas F. Vella (survived Normandy)

Second: Pvt. Stanley M Zajelka

Third: Pvt. Joseph Dottavanio

 

Erwin