Although being fired on from the ground they managed to make it all the way to the airfield at Dum Dum nr
Muhammad Ali by Stephen Doig
reached their objective and leapt into the Great Redoubt cheering as they did so
with pilots flying loose formation at 50 feet across the North Sea
March 1943
Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (B) UNT143 Although being fired on fromDHM1394B. Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13. 00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade, led by Lord Lovat, are piped past the defenders of the Caen canal (Pegasus) bridge by piper Bill Millin. The bridge was originally taken in a coup de main attack by the gliders of 6th Airborne Divisions D Company, 2nd battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, led by Major John Howard earlier that