OTD – The costliest night in RAF history. RH
Month: March 2019
March 30 – Trooper took North Irish horses to Egypt when regiment dismounted
Mules at Cassino. RH & OTD
March 29 – Remembering courage
Sandy Row bar man awarded DSM for Dunkirk. OTD & RH
March 27 – Navy pilot survives carrier loss
Kaiserschlacht Day 7 – end of 36th Ulster Div. OTD & RH
March 26 – NI Horse losses in Kaiserschlacht
Belfast RN in early development of tanks/landships. OTD & RH
March 25 – Mammoth airlift Operation Varsity
16,000 paratroopers. Kaiserschlacht day 5 depleted Ulst Div.
March 24 – Death of Field Marshal Montgomery
OTD -Three COs in three days for Irish Btn in Kaiserschlacht, The Great Escape.
March 23 – Loss of HMS Laforey
Largest airaid to date Dortmund 1943. RH and OTD