Royal Air Force Transport Command Blackburn Beverley aircraft with supply pallets in the foreground.
One of 22 photographs of Beverley, Hastings, Argosy, Andover, VC10 and Hercules aircraft of RAF Transport Command in support of 3rd Division, 1959 (c)-1975 (c).
From a collection of photographs assembled for use in Col Robin McNish’s ‘Iron Division - The History of the 3rd Division’, depicting the 3rd Division, 1918-1977.
After the Suez Crisis of 1956 showed the need for more rapid mobilisation, the 3rd Division pioneered the concept of air portability in the late 1950s and 1960s.