On 17 September 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden (First Lift) Staff Sergeant Ronald Gibson flew a Horsa Glider to Arnhem with his second pilot - Sgt Ernest ‘Sim’ Simion, a German-Jew from Berlin. The Horsa carried a six-pounder Anti-Tank gun, a jeep, and two members of the Anti-Tank Platoon of 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment. Later in the battle, as a consequence of the move of the South Staffordshire Regiment down toward the road bridge in Arnhem, No 2 Wing of the Glider Pilot Regiment were employed as infantry holding a section of the 1st Airlanding Brigade area of the Oosterbeek perimeter. On 19 September ‘F’ Squadron were involved in particularly fierce fighting. Ron’s second pilot, ‘Sim’ Simion, was killed in a trench nearby during a well co-ordinated infantry assault mounted by SS troops. Ron Gibson survived a series of similar attacks, and eventually escaped across the Rhine at the end of the battle during Operation Berlin. After the war he left the Army Air Corps, and studied to become an architect. After the death of both of his parents he moved to Kenya where he married, and subsequently immigrated to Australia. After four years he was seconded to Papua New Guinea, where he worked for the rest of his life until his death in 1977. He wrote an engaging narrative of his personal experiences of the Arnhem Battle in this book