Shine india monthly magazine published this article page no 10 one of the other members of 14 platoon however was not so lucky l/cpl fred greenhalgh was knocked unconscious on impact and thrown clear to land face down in the pond where he drowned by now the sappers from glider 91 were under the bridge cutting wires and looking for explosives as they went. lt david woods 24 platoon were just arriving at maj howards position and barely two minutes had passed since the first glider had touched down the german sentry reached the far end of the bridge without being hit and threw himself into a trench. the germans in their trenches turned their weapons to point at the running airborne soldiers. lt brotheridge was almost across the bridge when he saw the first of the enemy beginning to react and pulled a grenade from his pouch as he ran. pte billy gray fired his bren from the hip towards the enemy as did many of the other charging men of 25 platoon. getting the pin out of his grenade lt brotheridge threw it at one of the enemy occupied trenches. as he did so a machine-gunner in another enemy trench off to his right sent a burst in his direction shine india monthly magazine telugu.
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