"Memorial Pegasus - Ranville" Topic
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| KoppiBlogger | 19 May 2019 8:26 a.m. PST |
Today pictures from the Pegasus bridge and the museum in Ranville.
Have fun. link
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| French Wargame Holidays | 19 May 2019 9:18 a.m. PST |
A great museum and a favourite location for our customers to visit then return to wargame at Hercé Salon de Guerre. Cheers
Matt
Hercé Salon de Guerre
"Walk the battlefield in the morning, wargame in the afternoon"
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| Vigilant | 19 May 2019 5:41 p.m. PST |
Fantastic place. I was lucky to be there on June 6 2014 for the 70th anniversary commemorations. Great to see some of the veterans there along with current troops from the paras and rifles. |
Joe1870  | 19 May 2019 6:21 p.m. PST |
I got to see this in 2017, and it was great. |
| Ammianus | 24 May 2019 8:20 a.m. PST |
My fav D-Day story, RE Richard Todd the actor:
At the beginning of World War 2, Todd joined the British Army, receiving a commission in 1941. He served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) before joining the Parachute Regiment and the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion as part of the British 6th Airborne Division. On 6 June 1944, as a captain, he participated in Operation Tonga during the D-Day landings.[5] He was among the first British soldiers to land in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. His battalion parachuted in after glider-borne forces had landed to capture the Pegasus Bridge near Caen.[5] During the operation he met John Howard on the bridge and organized the repulse of several counter-attacks by the Wehrmacht forces holding the area.[6] (Todd played Howard in the film The Longest Day, recreating these events, while another actor played Todd. |
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