Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (GL) UNT3 605 Squadron

605 Squadron

Memphis Belle

with Col Christian in the lead

and a Crusader from the bow while deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin

Supplying air cover to a mixed force of 942 bombers over Normandy on Operation Goodwood

Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (GL) UNT3 605 SquadronDHM1394GL. Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13. 00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade, led by Lord Lovat, are piped past the defenders of the Caen canal (Pegasus) bridge by piper Bill Millin. The bridge was originally taken in a coup de main attack by the gliders of 6th Airborne Divisions D Company, 2nd battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, led by Major John Howard earlier that