Day 10 in the #ArchiveAdventCalendar is #ChristmasJumper but we have struggled with this one so can only offer these "jumpers"- RWF 6th Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment raised during the Second World War.
The battalion was created in 1942 by the conversion of the 10th (Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers to parachute duties. The battalion's first combat parachute jump was during Operation Dragoon the Allied invasion of the south of France.
Soon after the invasion, the battalion returned to Italy and took part in a second combat parachute jump, Operation Manna in Greece.
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