Comments on A bridge to remember

Did you get to see the Dakota they are renovating Johnathan? This will be an awesome testament to the memory of the glider invasion at Pegasus Bridge. The old boy who cuts my lawn in Normandy never stops going on about it - he was 10 in 1944 and the Dakota crews used to take him to Southampton and back for fun, he was back before his parents ever found out; a bit different to todays' "culture of risk aversion" - he is from Bayeux and was thus among the first French to be liberated.

Like many Normans of that generation, he hasn't a bad word to say about the liberators.


Posted by TomC at August 17, 2009 09:57 PM

TomC, no I did not see the plane, but I saw the excellent model of the Horsa glider and also several tanks, guns, etc. Very well preserved.


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at August 18, 2009 04:23 PM
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