Pegasus Bridge Basse-Normandie

Avenue du Major Howard, Ranville Basse-Normandie , Normandy, France - Phone: 02-31-78-19-44
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    Bridge, Historic site

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    I love Normandy. There. I said it.

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    Normandy is such a wonderful place. It's beautiful here....sort of like the outer banks of NC were 40 years ago. Still remote, but with enough history to make it interesting to be there.

    We met a German guy while bunker hopping.....he and Laurie discussed issues of the war from different perspectives. His daughter is married to a football …

  • 2

    Pegasus Bridge

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    Entry containing 6 photos titled: Replica of the original sign, Pegasus Bridge, Replica of a Horsa glider

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    NO CAMPSITES!!!!

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    ... I did before. After a hot chocolate and grignettes in Courselles sur mer we pedalled on in the rain to Benoville where we crossed Pegasus Bridge. 40 miles in, feeling fine. We then went on to Argeus where I went into the town hall and met a very nice ...

  • 2

    Storming of the Beaches

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    ... felt this way. I actually preferred it to the American one. Time was running out, and we only had one more site to visit. The Pegasus Bridge. This was the first bridge to be taken by the allies. It has since been replaced by a copy. Across the road, the ...

  • 3

    A death on the tour, quarantined in Deauville!

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    ... where Lt Den Brotheridge is buried.  He was the first casualty of the allied landing during the charge on what would be called Pegasus Bridge (and which we'd be visiting later). It was a packed day, so after spending a non-rushed 45 minutes to an ...

  • 4

    03/07/09

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    ... with mud from head to toes. Laughs all around or laugh out loud is all the same. As we were planning to go and see the Pegasus Bridge we had to swing back by the hotel to shower and change our clothes. We drove all the way and had lunch at the very ...

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    D-Day off Normandy coast

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    ... 3.5 hours of driving we finally arrived at Riva Bella where we visited the Museum "Musee de l'Atlantique" and the Pegasus Bridge. The bridge is not particularly brilliant in architecture, but it played an important role during D-Day.  After lunch, ...

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    D-day

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    ... . About 20m in each direction and they were goners as one side is a canal and the other side is swampland. You can then cross Pegasus Bridge (not the original but a newer version) and see the first French house to be liberated by the Allies. It is now a ...

  • 7

    Ugh, back to the beaches

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    ... plus ride to the D-Day beachs has been getting real old.  Luckily this was the last time.  We went to the Pegasus Bridge Museum, where our mueseum guide (like the one at Kilmanhaim Gaol in Dublin) was absolutely capitvating.  I think our ...

  • 8

    Our Canadian Heroes

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    ... in peace. We continued our way along the coast, headed towards the town of Ouistreham, along the way crossing the famous Pegasus Bridge, where a fierce battle raged between the Americans and Germans the night of June 5, 1944. We made a stop in ...

  • 9

    Foux Da Fa Fa

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    ... navigating all day.  Not wanting to travel the 110-130km motorways, Brian found a canal route that went right past the Pegasus Bridge.  This was a tactical point of the Germans during the WWII.  The British flew in and took over between ...

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    Fast Forward to WWII

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    ... that allowed the Allied troops to control water crossings, and glider delivery of supplies. We drove out of the memorial over the Pegasus bridge which was very surreal. There were temporary bridges from 1944 in use in up until 2003. Good old British ...