Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (GS) AIT200 One of the witnesses to

One of the witnesses to the disaster was a young Winston Churchill

are shown firing on British Matilda tanks of 4th/7th Royal Tank Regiment

Original antique coloured lithograph circa 1890

Men of the Special Air Service defend the mortar pit in one of the most famous engagements in the regiment's history

led the charge which broke through the left wing of the Persian army

Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (GS) AIT200 One of the witnesses toDHM1394GS. 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