As a “newly winged “ RAF pilot expecting to fly Spitfires or Mustangs, because of the casualties suffered by the Glider Pilot Regiment on the 17th September 1945 and the following week, I became a voluntary conscript in the Glider Pilot Regiment. On the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden I would like to acknowledge those who died. at Arnhem and the survivors who trained us for the Rhine Crossing on the 24th March 1945.