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Ahlen POW Hospital where Vance and DeBlasio were treated in March 1945
453rd BG, B-24s drop supplies during Operation Varsity
Burns and Right Wing into Target
Burns Crew Photo on Rhine in Wesel, 2019
Gun Emplacements in Wesel, Germany
Fighter Pilot Jack Delaney in Cockpit
Location Crash Site, Operation Varsity, Chandler and Crandell
More Detailed Model of Wesel
Operation Varsity drop zones and landing zones
506 Squadron Formation
Map showing drop zones for Operation Varsity airborne troops and supplies
Large model of Wesel area for airborne invasion
Low oblique model of drop zones for Operation Varsity
Devastation in Wesel, Germany after Allied bombing and invasion as part of Operation Varsity
Bridge approach blasted at Wesel, Germany
Delaney in Cockpit of P-47 and photo of his crash site over Wesel, Germany
B-24 flying low over the Dutch countryside during the Operation Varsity low-level resupply mission. A windmill is visible below the bomber, showing how low the mission was flown.
A downed C-47 is ablaze on the ground at Wesel, Germany, blowing black plumes of smoke during the Operation Varsity invasion.
Gliders landed on German fields in and around Wesel, Germany during the Operation Varsity invasion.
B-24s of the 2nd Air Division flying low over Wesel, Germany.
Still of supply chutes dropping from bombers, captured by Ursel Harvell, photographic officer, filming the mission
Supply chutes dropped by B-24s
Operation Varsity Low Level Resupply 3/24/45 Chutes Dropping Notes: Immediately after the troop carrier planes set the airborne troops down at Wesel, B-24s followed with a supply drop during the airborne…
Varsity Supply Chutes Dropping from 506 Squadron FormationNote: Footage taken from Pellow's bomber
Enemy flak guns on the ground in vicinity of Wesel, Germany