The links here also go to our comrades from Australia and America who served in various conflicts.
Webmaster originates from Rutland (smallest county in England). During WW II RAF Cottesmore, which is in Rutland and close to the webmasters home, became USAAF Station 489. By June 1944, the hangars at Cottesmore housed
US paratroops of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. C-47/C-53 aircraft carried US paratroops from Cottesmore for the Normandy landings in June. On 17 September, Cottesmore C-47's/C-53's launched towing Waco gliders on Operation MARKET GARDEN and dropped 1362 US paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division south of Nijmegen. When Victory in Europe was declared on 8 May 1945, the Americans departed for home on 11 May.
