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Just this last week I've been in contact with a friend of this gentleman who was asking about the crash, on his behalf. I was able to send him the following:
Horsa Chalk Number 126, piloted by Staff Sergeant Ronald Osborn and Sergeant Norman Whitehouse, was part of the Third Lift (19th Sept) and had flown from Tarrant Rushton. It carried a jeep, six-pounder anti-tank gun and two crew members from the Polish Anti-Tank Battery (Maslorz and Nowak).
The query had also been sent to other friends and colleagues and these additions were sent by one of them:
The tug was a Halifax Mk. V. with call sign P ‘A’ SLM, flown by Pilot Officer McConville from 644 Squadron RAF. The passengers were Artillery Sergeant Piotr P. Maslorz and Gunner Kazimierz Nowak. Osborn was buried in a communal grave along with his co-pilot and the two Polish passengers in the RC section of the General Cemetery at St. Michielsgestel, communal grave 1-4.
Steve W.
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