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File:Stirlings ready for Operation Tonga at RAF Keevil June 1944 IWM CH 13298.jpg

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English: Operation TONGA. Short Stirling Mark IVs of Nos. 196 and 299 Squadrons RAF, lining the runway at RAF Keevil, Wiltshire, UK, on the evening of 5 June, before emplaning paratroops of the 5th Parachute Brigade Group for the invasion of Normandy.
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This photograph CH 13298 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author Clark N S (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer
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