Tour Guide Pegasus Bridge by francois Gauthron

02/03/2018

The 6th Airborne Division's objective was to seize and hold two bridges east of the Normandy beachhead. One small element of lost souls briefly took a third.

05/03/2017

The son of a British D-Day veteran has been ordered to appear before a French judge. Why? Because he asked ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy to recover his father’s “stolen” medals.

22/07/2016

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It changed the world more than any other single event in history. There have been countless thousands of published works devoted to all or of it. But

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HORSA GLIDERS

06/04/2016

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The task of capturing the bridges over both the Orne River and Canal fell to a selected force drawn from the 2d Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and the Royal Engineers, commanded by Major John Howard. The six gliders carrying this force were to land in the dark on the appr…

06/04/2016

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Ranville is best reached by taking the D513 north-eastwards out of Caen, and after about 9 kilometres turning left at Herouvillette. Go north for one kilometre and then turn left into Ranville village. The War Cemetery is on Rue des Airbornes.

06/04/2016

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Generaloberst Dollmann (centre) inspects the Merville Battery on the 25th May 1944. On the far right is Oberleutnant Raimund Steiner, the commander of the Battery. At the time that the 9th Battalion attacked, Steiner was at an observation post on the beach.