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English: 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 Airlanding 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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This photograph HU 92976 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.

Original text: Imperial War Museum ref HU 92976 (3 May 2011 (first version); 17 May 2011 (last version)) Original uploader was Jim Sweeney at en.wikipedia.

Later version(s) were uploaded by Jncraton at en.wikipedia.
Author Kelly (Flt Lt): No. 106 (PR) Group.
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  • 2011-05-17 11:43 Jncraton 300×256× (16465 bytes) Lossless crop to remove watermark
  • 2011-05-03 19:40 Jim Sweeney 300×277× (18111 bytes) {{Information | description = 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 Airlanding Brigade]] and

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current07:53, 23 July 2012Thumbnail for version as of 07:53, 23 July 2012800 × 742 (86 KB)Rcbutcherreplaced with new higher-quality version from IWM
07:45, 23 July 2012Thumbnail for version as of 07:45, 23 July 2012300 × 256 (16 KB)File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)Transfered from en.wikipedia by User:rcbutcher using CommonsHelper

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