As a young boy I can recall the afternoon of Sunday 17 September 1944 at my home in Fareham. Fareham is roughly mid-way between Portsmouth and Southampton on the south coast of England. I remember it was a day of clear blue skies which made the perfect backdrop for dozens of planes flying towards Europe. I recall my father saying that there was something big going on over there. The "something big" was Operation Market Garden, and I always believed that those planes were a part of that. However everything I read about that operation suggests that the planes flew over the North Sea, and not over the Channel, so what were those planes that I saw? Any ideas? David