Pegasus Bridge

Monday was our long field trip day we went to see several sites! We left around 8:30am and didn't arrive home until 6pm.

Our first stop was Pegasus Bridge. Here is some background:

"The Memorial Pegasus at Ranville-Benouville is dedicated to the men of the 6th British Airborne Division who were the first liberators to arrive in Normandy on the night of 5th/6th June 1944. In the museum the different missions of the Airborne Divison are presented. The most spectacular being the capture of the Benouville Bridge by glider borne troops commanded by Major John Howard."

This museum was based mostly on models and the actual planes and bridge from 1944. There is still a Pegasus-looking bridge in it's original location, however they moved the original a few miles away in order to build a stronger bridge for the future, and so not to ruin the original. When we first arrived at the museum, our tour guide brought us into a round room with a huge model of the area we were in. There were lights all over the board that came on at different times to show the locations of the gliders, where they landed, and where they started from. Our tour guide explained the entire operation from start to finish. Afterwards, we watched a short film on it where it had several men from the event speaking about their past. (They even had Hans Von Luck in the video talking about his 21st Division; he wasn't apart of this though, but it was kind cool since I just read his book!).

After the video we went outside to see the actual Pegasus Bridge. It was really big, and the strangest looking bridge I've ever seen haha. The tour guide took us on the bridge and gave us some more information. They also had one of the gliders outside and a way to look into it and see what the plane looked like inside and out. All in all it was a great place and very interesting. Above are a few of the pictures I took, hopefully they come out in some kind of order with this post haha.

(1 post down and 4 more to go!!! and this is just for Monday!)