I started this model a long time back without any thought of it being assembled in time for the 75th anniversary of D Day. Various things happened and it got shelved, along with every other hobby activity, until a month or so ago when I decided that I should drag myself back to the model. At that point I noticed the significance of June 6th this year and it occurred to me that this would be a wonderful target for completing the model and more than that I could make a display piece to actively commemorate the brave men and women who fought and died to defeat Nazism.
And so here it is; completed yesterday (the final wash and highlight on the figures that represent the two pilots, Staff Sergeant Oliver Boland and [Staff?] Sergeant Hobbs) and photographed this morning on the 75th anniversary of D Day.
I hope you like the pictures, and so below I have pasted in a list of all the paratroopers that flew on this particular glider to attack and capture the Pegasus Bridge.
The Flight Crew and Paratroopers
Horsa 1 LW943 Chalk 92 (S/Sgt O.F.Boland - Sgt P.Hobbs)
Lieutenant
David Wood: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Sergeant
Leather: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Corporal
Cowperthwaite: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Corporal
Godbold: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Corporal
Ilsley: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Lance
Corporal Drew: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Lance
Corporal Roberts: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Chatfield: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Cheesley: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Harry Clark: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Clarke: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Dancey: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Harman: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Leonard: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Lewis: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Malpas: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Musty: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Pepperall: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Radford: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Warmington: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Waters: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Private
Weaver: No. 24 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Lance
Corporal Harris: Headquarters, D Company, 2nd Bn. Oxf. & Buck.
Captain
Neilson: 249th (Airborne) Field Company
Sapper
Conley: 249th (Airborne) Field Company
Sapper
Haslett: 249th (Airborne) Field Company
Sapper
Lockhart: 249th (Airborne) Field Company
Sapper
Shorey: 249th (Airborne) Field Company
(I found this list at this amazing website: http://www.americandday.org/D-Day/Pegasus_Bridge-Order_of_battle.html#Tonga92)
