Operation Tonga
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- Four 'stick' commanders of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division, synchronising their watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle at about 11 pm on 5 June 1944, just prior to take o H39070.jpg
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- Operation Tonga
- start time
- 1944-06-05
- end time
- 1944-06-07
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