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TheParachuteRegiment
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Utrinque Paratus - Ready for anything ๐ฌ๐ง
- The 7000 sq ft Union Flag ๐ฌ๐ง flying over Cadwell Park. The Red Devils are the only team to repeatedly jump a flag of this size into displays. They do this proudly to represent the Regiment. Ready for anything ๐ Footage by โRaven Studioโ ๐ช @BritishArmy @16AirAssltBCT
00:00 - Hundreds of British Paratroopers have dropped into Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. On the 5/6 June 1944 more than 13,000 paratroopers spearheaded the initial D-Day assault, carried from British bases to Normandy on more than 800 C-47s. For many,
00:00 - Remembering the #FalklandsWar1982 #GooseGreen @2PARA_HQ @VeteransFdn ๐ฆ๐ This incredible feat of arms shown by 2nd Battalion #ParachuteRegiment will not be forgotten. Lest we Forget.
01:06Remembering the Falklandsโฆ May 28th, 1982. The Battle of Goose Green Lest we forget ๐บ - On the eve of battle, 80 years ago. Operation Overlord was about to begin. The vanguard. They dropped from the flak filled skies, 7,000 highly trained troops of the British 6th Airborne Division paved the way for the liberation of Europe.ย Surrounded and vastly outnumbered,
- We Remember all those involved in #DDay79 in particular, the 6th Airborne Division๐who took part in Operation Tonga a few hours before the D-Day beach landings. #Normandy #LestWeForget
00:18156,000 ground troops 14,000 air force sorties 7,000 naval vessels The Normany Landings, 79 years ago today, was the largest seaborne invasion in history and marked the beginning of the liberation of western Europe from Nazi occupation. - The next generation. RSM Lamont hands his son a well earned maroon beret after passing P Coy with 815 Platoon. #everymananemperor
- The battle for Goose Green was the first and the longest battle of the Falklands War. It represented a fourteen-hour struggle waged by the Second Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA), pitted against various sub-units of the Argentine army and air force over nearly
- It was 81 years ago this week that men of the 1st Allied Airborne Corps were tasked to secure the main canal and river crossings between Eindhoven and Arnhem in Operation MARKET GARDEN. Ready for anything ๐ฌ๐ง๐ #Arnhem #Paras #History @BritishArmy @16AirAssltBCT
- They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not wearer them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
- Wishing his Majesty the King Charles III, our Colonel in chief a happy birthday. God Save The King๐ฌ๐ง #GSTK #Birthday #TheParachuteRegiment @RoyalFamily
- Jumping into the weekend! Airborne! ๐ฌ๐ง Ready for anything ๐๏ธ #Arnhem80 #Paras #BritishArmy #Reservists #4Para #Paratrooper @4PARAREG @BritishArmy @16AirAssltBCT @Arnhem44Fellow
- Mark William Wright GC Cpl Wright was killed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on the 6th Sept 2006, after entering a minefield in an attempt to save the lives of other injured soldiers. His actions were posthumously recognised with the award of the George Cross on 14th December
