PHOTOPAGE
'PEGASUS BRIDGE'

BELOW ARE SOME PICTURES THAT WERE TAKEN AROUND
THE FORMER BATTLEFIELD OF PEGASUS BRIDGE

The Centaur tank across the Café Gondrée

The preserved bridge at the museum

Hits by shrapnel and bullets are still visible

Stone markers are placed where the Horsa gliders came down

A sculpture of Major Howard looks at his target, Pegasus Bridge

The bronze head of Major John Howard, and 'the man himself'

Across the canal stood, on the right, beside a maternity hospital,
a watertower from which snipers operated.

Howard gave permission to fire one single shot
with this cannon, a Kwk 5cm, to put it out of use

The gun is still pointed more or less in the same direction

The old maternity hospital was hit more than ones during the battle,
it still bears the scars of war

At the Pegasus Bridge museum are some original artefacts,
such as the headgear from Major John Howard

A replica of a Horsa glider is to be found in the museum grounds

Among the vehicles is this Halftrack

Also at the museum a statue of Brigadier James Hill DSO**, MC
despite his injuries he led the Canadian 3rd Parachute Brigade
(the statue stood once at Le Mesnil)

The church of Benouville, Then and Now

Behind the church are some graves to be found
of paratroopers who were killed on 6th June, 1944,
among them a private of 19 and a reverend of 29 years old

Click below on the Quad .50
and you will shoot back