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Check this out. Winston Churchill knew the Storch, up close and personal:
Broadhurst piloted Winston Churchill over to Normandy six weeks after the D-Day landings for a morale-boosting visit to the troops. They landed at Sainte Croix surMer airfield, which was a temporary airfield that had been constructed after the landings by the Royal Engineers. It was known as RAF 'B3 ALG' (Advanced Landing Ground), and was only 3.5 kms from the "Gold" landing beach.
In doing so, Churchill was the first wartime leader to visit "liberated" France, well before de Gaulle, and some weeks before Eisenhower himself managed to come ashore.
Broadhurst piloted Winston Churchill over to Normandy six weeks after the D-Day landings for a morale-boosting visit to the troops. They landed at Sainte Croix surMer airfield, which was a temporary airfield that had been constructed after the landings by the Royal Engineers. It was known as RAF 'B3 ALG' (Advanced Landing Ground), and was only 3.5 kms from the "Gold" landing beach.
In doing so, Churchill was the first wartime leader to visit "liberated" France, well before de Gaulle, and some weeks before Eisenhower himself managed to come ashore.
![Churchill's Storch I.jpg Churchill's Storch I.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/354/354915-68cf594f2db828fd5cec7b14d49229fb.jpg)
![Churchill's Storch II.jpg Churchill's Storch II.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/354/354916-068dc189ff14f0b19c5abf48f259985e.jpg)
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