No. 299 Squadron RAF
During the Normandy landing the squadron first delivered paratroopers, and then returned to air-tow 16 Airspeed Horsa gliders across the English Channel.
The squadron continued operations with resupply drops until 10 June when it returned to SOE duties.
It was also involved in supply-dropping to resistance forces in Norway until the end of the war.
On 7 October 1945, it lost five of its members in the crash of a Short Stirling IV in Rennes (Brittany).
[7] At the end of the Second World War the squadron disbanded at RAF Shepherds Grove, Suffolk on 15 February 1946.
Short Stirlings
of Nos.
196
and 299 Squadrons RAF lining the runway at
RAF Keevil
on the evening of 5 June 1944 before emplaning paratroops of the
5th Parachute Brigade
Group for the invasion of Normandy