D-DAY SOUVENIR TUESDAY MAY 24 1994 9 AIRBORNE ASSAULT Capturing the bridge was vital to the D-Day plan Above right:
... midnight on D-Day with other members of the 7th Battalion Parachute Regiment ‘converted’ from a battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry Panzer The drop zone was on the right bank of the Orne and just to the east of Pegasus bridge captured minutes earlier ...