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Operation Tonga - Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery (Paperback, New)
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Operation Tonga - Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery (Paperback, New)
Series: Elite Forces Operations Series
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Discovery Miles 4 420
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The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John
Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories
of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the River Orne
and the Caen Canal near Benouville, Howard's men took and held the
bridges in a remarkable coup de main operation with minimal
casualties. The 7th Parachute Battalion dropped in soon afterwards
to relieve Howard's men and the action remains, by any standards, a
remarkable feat of arms. But it was only one act in a much grander
production put on by 6th Airborne Division that night to secure and
protect the eastern flank of the Allied landings inland from Sword,
the British landing beach. Key bridges over the Dives had to be
blown to foil possible German counter attacks and to north east, at
Merville, a battery of guns which the allied planners thought could
wreak havoc on the beaches and ships at sea, had to be eliminated.
The task fell to the men of the 9th Parachute Battalion, whose
actions in assaulting the Merville Battery became another D-Day
epic - but for very different reasons."
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