Richard Gale

so the, the mustache is for, for festival.

And is that, is that in honor of Johnny Frost or, or Windy Gale, or a bit of everything? It's a bit of everything.

It's a bit of a, it's a bit of an airborne tribute to all of them.

It's a battle tash.

Their understanding, their morale, their choices of deputies and subordinates all the way down shape the nature of the morale that lands out of jumping out of airplanes all over the place.

And we need to introduce Major General Richard Gale.

What do we need to know about him, Mac?

He was definitely a good guy that some of the other British airborne commanders weren't all geniuses, but everybody liked Richard Gale.

He was an incredibly gung-ho type.

He landed in the first wave of gliders into Normandy himself.

And he landed with Chester Wilmer, a great Australian war correspondent who vividly described what it was like landing with Richard Gale.

And Gale was one of those completely imperturbable senior officers who he was as good as the American, his American counterparts, Ridgeway and Gavin and so on.