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ocr: D-Day: Fifty Years On The Capture of Pegasus Bridge The: night before D-Day, 5th June, the Alles knew the capture of the briiges across the Orne river and canal: at B enouville was essentialif they were to ac. hieve the immedate objective of captwring Caen. The task was give n to Major General Sir Ril hard Windy' Gale's6 6th(Airborne) Division and agliler-borne force e of the 2nd (Ox and Bucks) Light Infantrya attackedt the briiges at midnight in aclassic coup-de- -main operaton. Fowr glilers lnded ontarget and the other two ne: arby. The assault leader, Mjor John Howard, capture d his targets ...
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