Air war varsity

This title on Operation Varsity includes both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions.

Operation 'Varsity-Plunder', the last large-scale Allied airborne operation of World War II, was certainly no walk-over. 'Varsity' was the airborne part, whilst 'Plunder' represented the British amphibious operations by the British Second Army.

The airlift consisted of 541 transport aircraft containing airborne troops and a further 1,050 troop-carriers towing 1,350 gliders.

The American 17th Airborne Division's C-46 Commando transports and Waco gliders joined the British 6th Airborne Division C-54s, C-47 transport aircrafts, Horsas and Hamilcar gliders to form an immense armada that stretched for more than 200 miles across the sky.