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Horsa Bridge
Horsa Bridge, also known as Ranville Bridge, over the Orne river, was, along with Pegasus Bridge, captured during Operation Tonga by gliderborne troops of the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) in a coup de main operation in the opening minutes of D-Day, 6 June 1944. The seizing of both bridges was considered to be critical to securing the eastern flank of the Normandy landings area, preventing German armour from reaching the British 3rd Infantry Division which was due to start landing on Sword at 07:25. Horsa Bridge, a road bridge, was over 400 yards east of Pegasus Bridge towards the village of Ranville.
HorsaBridge, also known as Ranville Bridge, over the Orne river, was, along with Pegasus Bridge, captured during Operation Tonga by gliderborne troops...
Ranville Bridge over the Orne River (another road crossing, later renamed HorsaBridge), the objective of members of D Company, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire...
Army. During the Second World War he led the first platoon to land at HorsaBridge in the gliderborne 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light...
The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa was a British troop-carrying glider used during the Second World War. It was developed and manufactured by Airspeed Limited,...
Publishers ISBN 978-0905778556. Shilleto, Carl (2010). Pegasus Bridge and HorsaBridge. Pen & Sword Books Ltd ISBN 978-1848843097. Tillett, JMA (1993)...
Airspeed Horsa gliders. The pilots of the gliders succeeded in delivering the company to its objective. After a brief exchange of fire, both bridges were...
of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges to be captured, were what are now known as the Pegasus Bridge and HorsaBridge. Operation Tonga followed, dropping...
Caen canal and Orne river bridges via a glider assault at 00:16 (since renamed Pegasus Bridge and HorsaBridge). Both bridges were quickly captured intact...
at HorsaBridge. The glider carrying Captain Brian Priday and Lieutenant Tony Hooper's platoon, which was assigned to the capture of HorsaBridge, landed...
were carried in six Horsa gliders to capture the vital bridge (later renamed "Pegasus Bridge") over the Caen Canal, and the bridge over the Orne River...
Infantry (the 52nd), on D-Day, 6 June 1944, tasked to seize HorsaBridge and Pegasus Bridge before the main assault on the Normandy beaches began. The...
Road bridge (present day A379) was used in rehearsals for the D-Day attack on the 'Canal de Caen' (Pegasus Bridge) and the River Orne (HorsaBridge), by...
of a US Navy base, and the bridge over the canal was used for rehearsing a glider attack on the Pegasus and HorsaBridges in Normandy by the Oxfordshire...
the first Airspeed Horsa glider to land close to the Bénouville Bridge was officially inaugurated. At the inauguration, the Horsa glider was shown to...
Regiment who achieved notability as the pilot of the first Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944, during the Second...
coup de main assault on the Ponte Grande Bridge by the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Using the Horsa glider, which could carry twenty-seven...
Poett made contact with Lieutenant Sweeney at HorsaBridge. He then made his way to the Pegasus Bridge and Major Howard. The Battle of Bure took place...
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