Title: The Pegasus and Orne Bridges
Description: "The glider-borne operation to capture the Pegasus and River Orne Bridges has an established place in the annals of warfare. Conducted by Major John Howard and his six platoons of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, it was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed 'coup de main' assault."--Jacket.
Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Parachute Regiment. Battalion, 12th, British Aerial operations, Great Britain. Army. Parachute Regiment. Battalion, 7th, Campaigns, Great Britain, World War, 1939-1945, Great Britain. Army. Parachute Regiment. Battalion, 13th, Regimental histories, Great britain, army, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, france, normandy, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, british
Places: Normandy, France