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	Airborne Museum Pegasus Bridge
		It replaces the old one that used to be alongside Pegasus Cafe.
		The highlight of the visit is being able to walk across the original Pegasus Bridge, which is preserved in the grounds of the museum, after it was replaced some years ago.
		Preserved Bailey Bridge in the grounds of the museum.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /airborne_museum_pegasus_bridge.htm (136 words)

	Pegasus Bridge
		Pegasus was the name given to a bridge over the Caen canal, near the town of Ouistreham.
		The bridge, also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed units by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6 June 1944.
		The eastern flank was defined by the River Orne and the Caen Canal, and Pegasus Bridge, together with the neighouring Horsa Bridge, were the only bridges in the immediate vicinity of the invasion area to cross these features, and so their successful capture would secure the eastern flank.
	www.army.mod.uk /infantry/regts/the_rifles/history_traditions/battle_honours/pegasus_bridge.htm (1492 words)

	Custom Map - Benouville
		The British landed three gliders, one near the bridge over the river Orne and two near the bridge over the canal, which was described as the finest piece of airmanship during the war as it was at night with just compasses and stopwatches.
		The river bridge was taken without a fight as the Germans had left their positions, the canal bridge that became known as Pegasus bridge however was still defended.
		Pegasus bridge was defended by approximately 50 german troops and once the bridge was taken the Germans made two counter attacks, on one occasion a German tank was deployed, this was soon put out of action by Sgt. Thornton using a PIAT anti-tank gun, from very close range!!
	www.calltoarms.btinternet.co.uk /benouville.htm (412 words)

	3rd Parachute Brigade WW2 Reenactors - Maj. Howard
		The Caen Canal Bridge - since immortalised as Pegasus Bridge - and the neighbouring bridge over the River Orne carried a lateral road which had to be captured and held, in order to ensure supplies from Sword Beach to the 6th Airborne Division, which had been dropped to the east of Caen.
		The occupants of the dugouts on the periphery of the bridge were disposed of with high explosive and phosphorus grenades, while the bridge itself was raked with a hail of 9mm and.303 fire.
		Pegasus Bridge, whose steel girders have become, over the years, part of the iconography of the D-Day story, was rebuilt in 1994, because of the wear and tear of modern juggernaut traffic.
	www.6th-airborne.org /howard.html (1016 words)

	Stop 1 - Pegasus Bridge & Gondree Cafe
		Pegasus Bridge was the objective of 6th (Airborne) Division's 'coup de main' force on the night of 5th/6th June 1944.
		With this bridge, the bridge across the Orne secured by another party from the Oxs and Bucks, Howard had achieved his objectives in ten minutes and sent the radio message 'Ham and Jam' to indicate both positions had been taken intact.
		The original Pegasus Bridge was replaced in the 1990s, but is now preserved in the grounds of the nearby Airborne Museum.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /stop_1_-_pegasus_bridge_&_gondree_cafe.htm (388 words)

	Gliderborne Assault on D-Day - Pegasus Bridge
		Its most famous landmark, the PEGASUS BRIDGE, with its metallic structure was unfortunately dismantled, to the great furor of the local population but also a great deception for the many surviving British red berets that risked their lives to defend that bridge.
		The PEGASUS BRIDGE was indeed the symbol of courage and tenacity of the British army.
		Pegasus Bridge was rebuilt in 1994, and a museum commemorating D-Day is to be opened there on June 6, 2000.
	free.prohosting.com /mawey/gliderborne_glideroperationsond_day_tonga_mallard_pegasusbridge.htm (3249 words)

	Pegasus Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pegasus was the name given to a bridge over the Caen canal, near the town of Ouistreham.
		The bridge, also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed units by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6 June 1944.
		The old bridge (built in 1934) was too narrow and was not structurally suited to heavy modern traffic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pegasus_Bridge (1836 words)

	::Pegasus Bridge::
		The control of Pegasus Bridge gave the Allies the opportunity to disrupt the Germans ability to bring in re-enforcements to the Normandy beaches, especially those that the British and Canadians were landing at — Gold, Juno and Sword.
		Troops led by Major John Howard — landed by Horsa glider — captured the Caen Canal Bridge, later renamed Pegasus Bridge in honour of the cap badge of the 6th Airborne Division.
		The bridge was guarded by German machine gun posts but by using gliders, the British landed with a degree of surprise and the bridge was captured with relative ease after a 10 minute fire-fight.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /pegasus_bridge.htm (395 words)

	Cardboard Warriors
		The main objective of capturing Pegasus Bridge on D-Day was to secure the eastern flank of the invasion force, thus preventing a counterattack from rolling up the entire invasion force division by division.
		Here were the only bridges in the immediate vicinity of the invasion area to cross these canals: Bénouville Bridge (now called Pegasus Bridge), together with the neighbouring Orne River Bridge (now called Horsa Bridge).
		The bridge lay out in the fields for six years while funds were being raised to give it a proper place on the museum grounds, where it is now located.
	www.xs4all.nl /~cryo/pegasusbridge.htm (1030 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Museum tribute for D-Day bridge
		The Pegasus Bridge in Normandy, France, has been sitting in a lorry park since it was dismantled in 1993.
		But the bridge is to be resurrected after British veterans' associations pushed for it to be given a fitting memorial.
		In 1993 the bridge, which had become a popular tourist attraction, was dismantled and replaced with a replica, designed to withstand the stress of modern day traffic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/636389.stm (357 words)

	Northwest Historical Association (NWHA) - WW2 Reenacting Society
		In order to secure the bridge once it had been seized, British troops moved into the village of Bénouville, which is directly at the west end of Pegasus Bridge.
		Two blocks down the street due west from the exit of the bridge and the Café Gondrée is the 'T' junction where Sgt. "Wagger" Thornton used a PIAT to repel the first German armoured counter-attack on the night of June 5th/6th.
		Whereas Pegasus Bridge was maintained as a memorial even after the original structure was removed, the Orne River Bridge was not as well-known and has been replaced with a modern span.
	www.nwha.org /news_3Q2002/news_page6.html (1073 words)

	pegasusbridge
		The two bridges over the river Orne near Benouville could not be destroyed because these where vital for a quick expanding of the beachhead shortly after the first landings.
		Their target were the bridge across the orne at Ranville and the bridge across the Cean Channel.
		At Robehomme the bridge was blown by one single sergeant that had happened to have landed in the area.
	users.interstroom.nl /~heijink/normandy/pegasusbridge.html (762 words)

	Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
		In the early morning of June 6, 1944, a small force of British airborne troops stormed the German defenses at Pegasus Bridge and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe.
		Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II.
		The Allies could not hope to sustain a counterrattack of that nature, so it was crucial that the German-held bridge over the canal be captured early in the invasion.
	www.angelfire.com /ky3/pegasusbridge (301 words)

	John Howard
		Major John Howard, the commander of glider- borne British infantrymen who seized the strategically vital Pegasus Bridge in the first battle of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, died May 5 in a hospital in Surrey, England.
		The nearby Orne River bridge was captured by other troops in Howard's unit, and soon the words "Ham and Jam," signifying mission accomplished, were radioed to the airborne.
		Pegasus Bridge was rebuilt in 1994, and a museum commemorating D-Day is to be opened there on June 6, 2000.
	www.mishalov.com /HowardJohn.html (650 words)

	Day 1
		The start of the tour was to the action that took place at Pegasus bridge, which was taken by Major John Howard's force, landing in Horsa gliders.
		The photo shows the new bridge, the original is close by at the museum.
		The bridges were essential to the Allies to protect the left flank of the Invasion forces.
	home.freeuk.net /johndillon/day_1.htm (509 words)

	AFTER-HOURZ.com :: CALL OF DUTY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pegasus Bridge was the first action by allied troops on D-Day June 6, 1944.
		It was one of two bridges, Pegasus and Horsa to be captured that night.
		These bridges were vital; failure to capture them would have afforded Axis armor a path to rapidly head toward the beaches of Normandy to repel the allied landings.
	www.after-hourz.com /cod/hist_pegasus.php (292 words)

	D-Day Campaign Pt. 1 - Pegasus Bridge
		The bridge spanned the Caen canal that ran parallel with the Orne River.
		The bridge was of particular strategic importance as it was a major artery into the Normandy interior and opened the way for Caen itself, the objective of the soldiers that would soon be landing on Gold, Juno and Sword beaches.
		Still, continued control of the bridge is by no means guaranteed and in a desperate situation such as this a hasty rearmament and demolition of the bridge by pioneers may be even more beneficial.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=ah/aam/ah20060609c (917 words)

	Bookreporter.com - PEGASUS BRIDGE by Stephen E. Ambrose
		It was a steel-girder bridge, painted gray, with a large water tower and superstructure.
		Except for the two sentries on each bridge, his troops were either sleeping in their bunkers, or dozing in their slit trenches or in the machine-gun pillbox, or off whoring in Bénouville.
		Since his bridges were almost five miles inland, he figured he would have plenty of warning before any Allied units reached him, even paratroopers, because the paras were notorious for taking a long time to form up and get organized after their drops scattered them all over the DZ.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0671671561-excerpt.asp (4509 words)

	Cardboard Warriors
		Even though Pegasus Bridge was soon in firm British hands, the surrounding villages of Benouville and Le Port were not.
		This soon became a problem when the bridge came under intense sniper fire and movement across the bridge was almost impossible.
		Even when visiting Pegasus Bridge nowadays it is painfully obvious how vulnerable the bridge is to being observed from high landmarks such as the Bénouville church and the Bénouville Chateaux.
	www.xs4all.nl /~cryo/pegasuschurch.htm (473 words)

	Pegasus Bridge May 26th, 2006
		The two bridges over the river Orne near Benouville could not be destroyed because these where vital for a quick expanding of the beachhead shortly after the first landings.
		Their target were the bridge across the orne at Ranville and the bridge across the Cean Channel.
		At Robehomme the bridge was blown by one single sergeant that had happened to have landed in the area.
	www.saak.nl /normandy2006/pegasus/pegasus.html (995 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Pub crawl nearly sank Pegasus Bridge raid
		The British attack on Pegasus Bridge - one of D-Day's most audacious military operations - was almost jeopardised by partying soldiers.
		Their mission was to prevent German panzer divisions using the bridges, the only routes across the Orne and the Caen Canal, to sweep down from the Pas de Calais to repel the Allied invasion.
		The Pegasus and Horsa raids were later dramatised in the epic war film The Longest Day, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery and Richard Burton.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/23/npegus23.xml (705 words)

	D-Day invasion Pegasus Bridge tour
		On the night between June 5th and 6th, the British Airborne Division that numbered around 8,000 men were commissionned to make the east flank of the front assault secure, whether destroying some of the bridges in order to isolate the German troops stationed beyond, whether capturing imperatively intact some other structures.
		That was the case with the famous Pegasus Bridge, drawbridge spanning the canal linking Caen to the sea, located at Bénouville.
		The capture of this bridge and of its neighbouring one, Horsa Bridge, should permit hundreds of thousand of men and vehicles to extend their advance eastward.
	www.normandy-guide.com /pegasus-bridge-tour.html (193 words)

	Pegasus Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bridge, also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed units by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6 June 1944.
		The main objective of capturing Pegasus Bridge was to secure the eastern flank of the invasion, preventing a counter attack from rolling up the entire invasion force.
		The eastern flank was defined by the River Orne and the Caen Canal, and Pegasus Bridge, together with the neighbouring Horsa Bridge, were the only bridges in the immediate vicinity of the invasion area to cross these features, and so their successful capture would secure the eastern flank.
	www.en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pegasus_Bridge (2026 words)

	Significance: Pegasus Bridge - History Forum
		What would have been the consequences had the bridge been recaptured and the 21st Panzer Division been able to roam freely all the way to the beach, in your opinion.
		Clearly, holding Pegasus bridge was vital to an orderly development of the beachead.
		Pegasus Bridge was the vital link between the main bridgehead and the opposite bank of the Orne north of Caen.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=3602 (851 words)

	Aviation History - Indiana Aviation Museum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This other bridge was called Le Pont Tournant (le poe tewern-ah), and provided access to the village of Ranville (rahn-veel).
		These bridges combined made access to the beach by any inland enemy tank forces.
		The Pegasus Bridge (crossing the canal) and the Tournant Bridge (crossing the Orne River) are located between Benouville and Ranville (see red line) and are directly South of Sword Beach:
	www.in-am.org /historical/pegasus (231 words)

	Dvd Shop >> Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
		After that is done it is explained the the company is to take Pegasus Bridge and hold it so the British can cross the river it is on.
		Comment: "Pegasus Bridge", describes 6th Airborne Division's planning and execution of the seizure of a crucial bridge near Caen in the British invasion sector.
		In short that mission was to seize the bridge in a coup-de-main operation, and hold it until relieved by ground forces moving forward from the beaches.
	www.advancingwomen.com /dvdshop/?Operation=CustomerReviews&ItemId=0671671561&ReviewPage=2 (577 words)

	Dvd Shop >> Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
		I visited Pegasus bridge a few years ago and had chills running down my spine reading the account of the action at the memorial.
		With Pegasus Bridge he does justice to our British allies, relating the absolutely critical roles played by British paratroops and glider infantry in securing the eastern flank of the Normandy beachhead; a feat comparable, but with different objectives, to what the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions did at the west of the beachhead.
		Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II.
	www.advancingwomen.com /dvdshop/?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0671671561 (704 words)

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