More than 1,500 aircraft and 1,300 gliders - carrying British, American, and Canadian airborne soldiers - participated in the operation. Sixty of those gliders were flown from Earls Colne.

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"Country boy" Eddie Annetts was one of more than 1,000 British, Canadian and American men who died during Operation Varsity Eighty years ago, planes and gliders packed with troops took to the ...

Eighty years ago, planes and gliders packed with troops took to the skies to take part in "the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe. This was Operation Varsity when more than 16,000 British ...