Derrick J Bentham

Operations

North Africa (Operation Torch)

On 12 November the 3rd Parachute Battalion (3 Para Bn) jumped onto and seized the vital airfield at Bone between Algiers and Tunis, arriving barely before German paratroopers deployed for the same mission.

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The Officers' Mess, 3rd Parachute Battalion, Spalding, Lincolnshire, 1944.

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Group photograph of 3rd Parachute Battalion Officers, July 1945.

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Derrick Bentham speaks with soldiers at Maison Blanche Airfield, Tunisia, c.November 1942

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