Image: Wing Commander Percy Pickard, CO of No. 51 Squadron RAF, inspects a captured German helmet with troops from 2nd Parachute Battalion after the Bruneval raid, 28 February 1942. H17347

Description: Wing Commander Percy Pickard, CO of No. 51 Squadron RAF, inspects a captured German helmet with troops from 2nd Parachute Battalion after the Bruneval raid, 28 February 1942. Squadron Leader Percy Pickard, Commanding Officer of No. 51 Squadron RAF, inspects a captured German helmet with parachute troops after the Bruneval raid, 28 February 1942. On the night of 27/28 February Pickard's squadron of Whitleys dropped 'C' Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (commanded by Major J D Frost) near a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval near Le Havre in northern France - its objective to seize components of the radar and then evacuate them by sea.
Title: Wing Commander Percy Pickard, CO of No. 51 Squadron RAF, inspects a captured German helmet with troops from 2nd Parachute Battalion after the Bruneval raid, 28 February 1942. H17347
Credit: http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//41/media-41218/large.jpg This photograph H 17347 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: Puttnam (Lt), War Office official photographer
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