AS51 Horsa Assault Glider

The Horsa was built by Airspeed and used by the British wherever and whenever they needed to drop Paras into the heat of the action. Whether over Normandy, Sicily, Arnhem or the Rhine, the Horsa was the use and discard engineless workhorse that took the Paras to their dangerous destinations. Most notably it was Horsas that were used to drop the 6th Airborne Division literally onto Pegasus Bridge over the Orne Canal and Horsa Bridge over the River Orne on the early hours of D-Day, 6th June 1944.

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