{"id":24253668,"date":"2026-09-23T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/arnhem-resupply-flights-david-lord-vc-market-garden-1944\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:55:24","slug":"arnhem-resupply-flights-david-lord-vc-market-garden-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/arnhem-resupply-flights-david-lord-vc-market-garden-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnhem\u2019s Forgotten Airmen: The Resupply Flights Nobody Talks About"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>The story of Arnhem is usually told from the ground: the bridge, the perimeter, the nine days, the evacuation across the Rhine on the night of 25 September.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There is another version of it that happens at 900 feet, in unarmed transport aircraft, flown straight and level over a shrinking pocket of ground crowded with anti-aircraft guns, by men whose job was to deliver ammunition to people who were not where the map said they were.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Between 18 and 25 September 1944, the Dakotas and Stirlings of Nos. 38 and 46 Groups flew that mission. Somewhere between 89 and 107 of them did not come back.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Operation<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Market Garden, 17\u201325 September 1944<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>The resupply force<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">RAF Nos. 38 and 46 Groups, with Royal Army Service Corps air despatchers aboard<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aircraft<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Douglas Dakota and Short Stirling<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Ordered drop height<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">900 feet, to make the drops accurate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Sorties<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">628 resupply sorties flown between 18 and 25 September, by one accounting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aircraft lost<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Between 89 and 107, depending on the source<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aircrew and despatchers killed<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Sources give 151 aircrew and 80 despatchers, or 309 aircrew and 79 despatchers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Victoria Cross<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Flight Lieutenant David Lord, No. 271 Squadron, 19 September 1944<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Outcome<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Most of the supplies fell into German hands; the division was evacuated on 25 September<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Nine hundred feet<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The height is the whole story. Crews were ordered to drop from 900 feet because the 1st Airborne Division held a small area and accuracy mattered more than survival. At that altitude, straight and level, an unarmed Dakota is not a difficult target. It is barely a target at all; it is a delivery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>They were told before they went that opposition over the dropping zone would be intense. They went anyway, repeatedly, for eight days.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/paratrooper-climbing-aboard-c-47-1944.jpg\" alt=\"A paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division climbing aboard a C-47 in 1944\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Dakota carried paratroops on the first day and containers on every day after. The aircraft did not change. The threat did. Photo: US Army<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">19 September, and eight minutes<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Flight Lieutenant David Lord was thirty, from Cork by way of Wrexham, and had very nearly become a Catholic priest before deciding that was not the career for him. He joined the RAF in 1936, flew Vickers Valentia biplanes in India, then DC-2s and Dakotas, then supply missions over Burma, which earned him a mention in despatches and then the DFC. On D-Day he carried paratroopers into France and came home with his flaps shot away.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On the afternoon of 19 September 1944 he was flying Dakota III KG374 of No. 271 Squadron, out of Down Ampney, towards Arnhem.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>At 1,500 feet the starboard wing was hit twice. The starboard engine caught fire. He asked whether the crew were hurt, was told they were not, was told the dropping zone was three minutes away, and said he would finish the job.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;By now the starboard engine was burning furiously. Flight Lieutenant Lord came down to 900 feet, where he was singled out for the concentrated fire of all the anti-aircraft guns. On reaching the dropping zone he kept the aircraft on a straight, and level course while supplies were dropped.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Victoria Cross citation<\/strong> &mdash; The London Gazette, supplement of 9 November 1945<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SpkY4fWV2Vc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>At the end of the run somebody told him two containers were still aboard.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Although he must have known that the collapse of the starboard wing could not be long delayed, Flight Lieutenant Lord circled, rejoined the stream of aircraft and made a second run to drop the remaining supplies. These manoeuvres took eight minutes in all, the aircraft being continuously under heavy anti-aircraft fire.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Victoria Cross citation<\/strong> &mdash; On Lord\u2019s second run over the dropping zone<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Then he told the crew to jump. The Dakota was down to 500 feet. He made no attempt to leave it himself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The starboard wing collapsed a few seconds later. One man got out: the navigator, Flying Officer Harold King, who was thrown clear while helping the others fit their parachutes, and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Nobody knew for a year<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>That is the part that stays with you. For nine months nobody in Britain knew what had happened on that aircraft. The crew were dead, the aeroplane had burned, and the only witnesses were a navigator in a German camp and some paratroopers of the 10th Parachute Battalion who had watched it from the ground.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>When they were released in mid-1945 the story came out, and Lord\u2019s Victoria Cross was gazetted on 9 November that year \u2014 the only VC awarded to a member of RAF Transport Command. He is buried with his crew at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/oosterbeek-airborne-war-cemetery-graves-tended-postwar.jpg\" alt=\"Men tending graves at the Oosterbeek Airborne War Cemetery in the years after the war\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Oosterbeek Airborne War Cemetery in the years after the battle, when the markers were still wooden. Lord and his crew are buried together here. Photo: Nationaal Archief<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The supplies went to the Germans<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The hardest fact about the Arnhem resupply is not the loss rate. It is that most of what was dropped landed in German hands.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The dropping zones had been fixed before the battle and were overrun early. The perimeter the division actually held was somewhere else, smaller and further west, and the communications that would have corrected the coordinates largely did not work. Crews flew to the points they had been given, at the height they had been ordered, into concentrated flak, and delivered ammunition to the 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2H1TQ8x3xYk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Combat cameraman footage from the operation itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The number nobody agrees on<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Even the casualty figures are contested. One accounting has 628 resupply sorties flown, 89 aircraft shot down, and 151 aircrew, 80 Royal Army Service Corps air despatchers and two passengers killed. Another gives 309 aircrew and 79 despatchers dead and 107 aircraft lost.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The air despatchers are the people most often left out entirely. They were soldiers, not aircrew, riding in the back of the aeroplane to push the panniers out of the door at the right moment. They had no parachute drill worth the name and no influence over anything that happened. Eighty of them died doing it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5weDkK6FYw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Every September a Dakota still flies the drop over Oosterbeek.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Five Victoria Crosses were awarded at Arnhem. Four went to soldiers on the ground. One went to a transport pilot who could have left the stream, and did not, twice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: The London Gazette, supplement of 9 November 1945; Commonwealth War Graves Commission; The Pegasus Archive; Australian War Memorial; Martin Middlebrook, Arnhem 1944; Alan W. Cooper, Air Battle for Arnhem.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Who resupplied the troops at Arnhem?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">RAF Nos. 38 and 46 Groups, flying Douglas Dakotas and Short Stirlings, with Royal Army Service Corps air despatchers aboard to push the containers out. They flew from British airfields to the Arnhem pocket and back, day after day, between 18 and 25 September 1944.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did the resupply aircraft fly so low?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">They were ordered to drop from 900 feet to make the drops accurate, because the perimeter the 1st Airborne Division held was small and shrinking. Nine hundred feet over a concentration of anti-aircraft guns is close to the worst place an unarmed transport aircraft can be.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many aircraft were lost resupplying Arnhem?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Sources differ. One accounting gives 628 sorties flown between 18 and 25 September with 89 aircraft shot down; another records 107 aircraft lost. Casualty figures likewise range from 151 aircrew and 80 air despatchers killed to 309 aircrew and 79 despatchers.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who was Flight Lieutenant David Lord?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A Royal Air Force transport pilot with No. 271 Squadron, born in Cork in 1913, who had flown in India, North Africa and Burma before carrying paratroops on D-Day. He was killed over Arnhem on 19 September 1944 and awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What did David Lord do to earn the Victoria Cross?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">With his starboard engine burning after two anti-aircraft hits, he descended to the ordered 900 feet, completed his drop, discovered two containers remained, and went round a second time. He then ordered his crew out at 500 feet and stayed at the controls. The wing collapsed seconds later.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did anyone survive Lord\u2019s aircraft?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">One man. The navigator, Flying Officer Harold King, was thrown clear while helping other crew members fit their parachutes, and became a prisoner of war. The story of what Lord had done only emerged when King and some paratroopers of the 10th Parachute Battalion were released in mid-1945.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the supplies reach the airborne troops?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Mostly not. The dropping zones had been overrun and the perimeter had moved, but the crews were flying to the coordinates they had been given. A large proportion of the containers fell into German hands, which is the cruellest detail of the whole operation.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many Victoria Crosses were awarded at Arnhem?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Five. Alongside David Lord, they went to Major Robert Cain and Lance-Sergeant John Baskeyfield of the South Staffordshire Regiment, Lieutenant John Grayburn of the 2nd Parachute Battalion and Captain Lionel Queripel of the 10th Parachute Battalion.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Who resupplied the troops at Arnhem?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"RAF Nos. 38 and 46 Groups, flying Douglas Dakotas and Short Stirlings, with Royal Army Service Corps air despatchers aboard to push the containers out. 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